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Aircraft system for aiming bombs
A bombsight is a device used by military aircraft to drop bombs accurately. Bombsights, a feature of combat aircraft since World War I, were first found
Bombsight
Targeting device on US bombers during World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War
Norden Mk. XV, known as the Norden M series in U.S. Army service, is a bombsight that was used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the United
Norden_bombsight
Upcoming American superhero series
Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, Aya Cash as Clara Vought, and Mason Dye as Bombsight, who will reprise their roles from The Boys, alongside Will Hochman, KiKi
Vought_Rising
American actor (born 1994)
best known for his breakout role of Jason Carver in Stranger Things, and Bombsight in The Boys universe. Mason Dye was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He grew
Mason_Dye
Final season of television series The Boys
Aya Cash as Clara Risinger / Liberty / Stormfront Mason Dye as Robbie / Bombsight Naoko Mori as Golden Geisha Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Joe Kessler Samuel
The_Boys_season_5
Bombsight used by the RAF during World War II
The Mark XIV Bomb Sight was a bombsight developed by Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command during the Second World War. It was also known as the Blackett
Mark_XIV_bomb_sight
American actress
Rising' Super Suits Photos: Jensen Ackles As Soldier Boy, Mason Dye As Bombsight & More". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 14 August 2025. Harris, Raquel
Elizabeth_Posey
World War II British heavy bomber aircraft
Bomber Command: Bombsights used on Lancasters included: Mark IX Course Setting Bomb Sight (CSBS). This was an early preset vector bombsight that involved
Avro_Lancaster
Dutch-American engineer (1880–1965)
Lucas van Norden, was a Dutch-American engineer who invented the Norden bombsight. Norden was born in Semarang, Java. After attending a boarding school
Carl_Norden
Type of autopilot system
autopilot made it possible for new bombsights to be used on military aircraft. The Norden Bombsight and Sperry Bombsight were both used onboard Army and
Gyroscopic_autopilot
American bombsight series
The Estoppey D-series was a line of inter-war era bombsights developed by Georges Estoppey of the US Army Air Corps' McCook Field, starting with the D-1
Estoppey_D-series
US Navy optical bomsight used before WWII
The Bombsight, Pilot-Directing, Mark III was an inter-war era bombsight developed by the US Navy to equip its bomber aircraft. It was a development of
Bombsight, Pilot-Directing, Mark III
Bombsight,_Pilot-Directing,_Mark_III
USAAF WWII-era airborne radar bombsight
The AN/APQ-7, or Eagle, was a radar bombsight system developed by the US Army Air Force. Early studies started in late 1941 under the direction of Luis
AN/APQ-7
Optical bombsight used by the Royal Navy and RAF
The Low Level Bombsight, Mark III, sometimes known as the Angular Velocity Sight, was a Royal Air Force (RAF) bombsight designed for attacks by aircraft
Low_Level_Bombsight,_Mark_III
Bombsight of most Luftwaffe bombers
was the primary series of bombsights used in most Luftwaffe level bombers, similar to the United States' Norden bombsight, but much simpler to operate
Lotfernrohr_7
super-strength. During his earlier life, Bombsight had a rivalry with Soldier Boy and dated Golden Geisha. Bombsight will appear in the prequel Vought Rising
List_of_The_Boys_characters
American satirical superhero series
account. In October 2024, it was announced that Mason Dye had been cast as Bombsight for the season. Although situated in New York City as in the comics, it
The_Boys_(TV_series)
Royal Air Force bombsight used during World War II
Force bombsight used in small numbers during World War II. The system worked along similar tachometric principles as the more famous Norden bombsight, but
Stabilised Automatic Bomb Sight
Stabilised_Automatic_Bomb_Sight
Bombing procedure
to develop new bombsights that would allow the aircraft to bomb from higher altitudes. The most notable, the US Navy's Norden bombsight, was fitted[when
Skip_bombing
British philosopher (1921–2004)
succession of three electro-mechanical drawing machines from modified bombsight analogue computers which were employed in World War II bombers to calculate
Desmond_Paul_Henry
American actor
Rising' Super Suits Photos: Jensen Ackles As Soldier Boy, Mason Dye As Bombsight & More". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 14 August 2025. Harris, Raquel
Will_Hochman
American bombing of Japan on April 18, 1942
broomsticks as mock gun barrels in the tail cone. Replacement of the Norden bombsight with a makeshift aiming sight devised by pilot Capt. C. Ross Greening
Doolittle_Raid
Dancer; donated her hair (1907–1991)
incorrectly claimed that her hair was used to make the crosshairs in the Norden bombsight, a myth perpetuated by notable personalities such as President Ronald
Mary_Babnik_Brown
German aircraft bomb aiming computer
(BZA), also known as the Bomb Ziel Automat, was a German World War II bombsight analog computer designed to calculate the precise release of bombs during
Bombenzielanlage
Military theory
the number of bombers would have to be prohibitively large. The Norden bombsight, tested in 1933, held the promise of much greater accuracy in high altitude
Industrial_web_theory
Nazi German spy ring in the U.S. during World War II
of the top secret Norden bombsight. Ritter achieved several major successes with the Abwehr, most notably the Norden bombsight, in addition to an advanced
Duquesne_Spy_Ring
WW1 bombsight that used wind speed mrasurement to adjust for horizontal drift
The Drift Sight was a bombsight developed by Harry Wimperis in 1916 for the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). It used a simple mechanical device to measure
Drift_Sight
Comic book superhero
it ends up in Homelander's hands. When they get the final sample from Bombsight, Soldier Boy gives Homelander the V1 in memory of Stormfront, causing
Soldier_Boy
American equipment and electronics company (1910–1986)
variety of other gyroscope-based aviation instruments like autopilots, bombsights, analog ballistics computers and gyro gunsights. In the post-WWII era
Sperry_Corporation
United States historic place
The Glasgow Army Airfield Norden Bombsight Vault was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is a one-story 16.5 by 13 feet (5
Glasgow Army Airfield Norden Bombsight Storage Vault
Glasgow_Army_Airfield_Norden_Bombsight_Storage_Vault
Automobile
swept-back fenders were fitted to sedans and coupes, and a war-inspired "bombsight" hood ornament was adopted. The instrument panel was two-toned with woodgrain
Buick_Roadmaster
American politician (1922–2015)
in his 2005 book The Flying Circus: Pacific War—1943—As Seen through A Bombsight. After the war, he made his home in Weatherford, where he joined partners
Jim_Wright
British delegation to the U.S. in 1940 during WWII
the meeting then went smoothly. Britain was interested in the Norden bombsight. President Roosevelt apologised and said that it was not available to
Tizard_Mission
American singer and TV personality (1919–1991)
Harlingen, Texas, from 1976 to 1988. He donated a once-top-secret Norden bombsight to the CAF's B-29 bomber restoration project. In the late 1970s, as a
Tennessee_Ernie_Ford
American pilot and artist (1914–1957)
Norden bombsight was ineffective for the low-level bombing planned for the Doolittle raid. Instead, Greening designed a "Mark Twain" bombsight out of
Charles_Ross_Greening
Creepback (or creep-back) is the tendency of bomber aircraft using optical bombsights to release their weapons aimed at target markers before time, leading
Creepback
Bomb targeter on military planes
the airplane during the bombing run, using a device such as the Norden bombsight which was connected to the autopilot of the plane. Often stationed in
Bombardier_(aircrew)
History museum in Gdańsk, Poland
Norden M2WS bombsight
Museum of the Second World War
Museum_of_the_Second_World_War
Russian-American aviation pioneer (1894–1974)
make 364 patent claims, among them the first gyroscopically stabilized bombsight, which Seversky developed with Sperry Gyroscope Company in 1923. After
Alexander_de_Seversky
Carrier-based multirole combat aircraft
Around 10 to 12 will receive an upgrade including the Gefest SVP-24 bombsight for free-fall bombs, giving them a limited ground attack capability, but
Mikoyan_MiG-29K
Computation machine that uses continuously varying data technology
Mischgerät (V-2 guidance computer) MONIAC, economic modelling Nomogram Norden bombsight Rangekeeper, and related fire control computers Scanimate SR-71 inlet
Analog_computer
American guided bomb
control meant that the bombardier still had to accurately release it with a bombsight to ensure it could not fall short of or beyond the target. The "tail package"
Azon
Former General in the United States Army Air Corps
and development, as well as key technologies such as B-17s, the Norden bombsight, and the high-octane gasoline that would later power the fighters of World
Augustine_Warner_Robins
Military Aircraft
cabin flooring, as well as locating original equipment such as the Norden bombsight. Where authentic components were not available, realistic replicas, such
Aluminum_Overcast
1941 British film by Anthony Asquith
Cottage to Let (also known as Bombsight Stolen) is a 1941 British spy thriller film directed by Anthony Asquith starring Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim and
Cottage_to_Let
American media franchise
the 1950s and centering the characters of Soldier Boy, Stormfront, and Bombsight from The Boys, with Jensen Ackles, Aya Cash, and Mason Dye reprising their
The_Boys_(franchise)
Vector bombsight
The Course Setting Bomb Sight (CSBS) is the canonical vector bombsight, the first practical system for properly accounting for the effects of wind when
Course_Setting_Bomb_Sight
1942 film by Roy William Neill
scientist Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) and his new invention, a bombsight, in escaping a Gestapo trap in Switzerland. Holmes and Franz fly to London
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Sherlock_Holmes_and_the_Secret_Weapon
City in Minnesota, United States
regulating control systems earned them military contracts for the Norden bombsight and the C-1 autopilot. In 1957, Control Data began in downtown Minneapolis
Minneapolis
Military history museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
an overview of the war. Sherman tank Enigma machine on display Norden bombsight on display Higgins boat (LCVP) display The Louisiana Memorial Pavilion
The_National_WWII_Museum
WWII optical bombsight
S-1 was a bombsight used by the USAAF and Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. Similar in concept to the more famous Norden bombsight, the S-1 used
Sperry_S-1
Variable in aiming a weapon
(or A.P.) refers to holding the intersection of the cross hairs on a bombsight when fixed at a specific target. An indirect fire aiming point provides
Aiming_point
Home rule city and seat of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States
of hygrometers (hair falsely reported to have been used to make Norden bombsights) Rick Edgeman, American statistician and sustainability researcher, born
Pueblo,_Colorado
Airborne warfare throughout World War II
indiscriminately[citation needed]. They claimed that by using the B-17 and the Norden bombsight, the USAAF should be able to carry out "precision bombing" on locations
Strategic bombing during World War II
Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II
Component used in mechanical computers
industrial settings, range-keeping systems on ships, and tachometric bombsights. The addition of the torque amplifier by Vannevar Bush led to the differential
Ball-and-disk_integrator
indiscriminately. They claimed that by using the B-17 and the Norden bombsight, the USAAF should be able to carry out "precision bombing" on locations
Military history of the United States during World War II
Military_history_of_the_United_States_during_World_War_II
Airplane that dropped the first atomic bomb
Bombardier Thomas Ferebee with the Norden Bombsight on Tinian after the dropping of the Little Boy
Enola_Gay
1941 film by Robert Florey
espionage ring led by the Mechanical Man is trying to take a stolen navy bombsight out of the country. Faraday and his men follow Blackie to the midway to
Meet_Boston_Blackie
Ranged weapon assistance system
fire-control systems was in bomber aircraft, with the use of computing bombsights that accepted altitude and airspeed information to predict and display
Fire-control_system
American airport and spaceport in Texas
purpose of the Bombardier College was to train young men to use the Norden bombsight. The first group of cadets, Class 42–6, arrived for training from Ellington
Midland International Air and Space Port
Midland_International_Air_and_Space_Port
1945 film by Henry Hathaway
Roper (based on the spy Herman Lang who delivered the top secret Norden bombsight to Germany) Leo G. Carroll as Col. Hammersohn (inspired by the spy ring
The_House_on_92nd_Street
Russian airplane series
descents. Later, in the bomber variants, a drift indicator and elementary bombsight were added to aid bombing. In 1913 the Ilya Muromets No. 107 flew for
Sikorsky_Ilya_Muromets
WW2 battle in England (1940)
suggests that the object may have been the sealed housing of a secret BZA bombsight analogue computer; the Air Ministry hushed up the incident so as not to
Battle_of_Graveney_Marsh
Canadian Test Observer Harry Griffiths, 20, fell through the floor of a bombsight in a Boston Bomber. Thankfully, American Test Pilot Sid Gerow, 29, flew
List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1940–1942)
List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(1940–1942)
Russian long-range supersonic strategic bomber
80 percent of avionics are replaced or upgraded, including SVP-24-22 bombsights, a phased array NV-45 radar, GLONASS navigation system, modern digital
Tupolev_Tu-22M
American low observable air-launched cruise missile
Retrieved 26 May 2013. Pappalardo, Joe (9 April 2012). "B-1 Pilots Turn Their Bombsights to the Pacific". Popular Mechanics. Archived from the original on 11 April
AGM-158_JASSM
Ministry of Aircraft Production during World War II on the development of bombsights. Robson died after a test flight crash at age 23. Robson was born to father
Dorothy_Robson
WWII-era medium bomber
unofficial nickname of "one shot lighter" by Allied fighter pilots. The bombsight used in the G3M was primitive compared to the mechanisms used in the G3M's
Mitsubishi_G3M
right or left, and a repeater dial so he can see the setting. The Norden bombsight was originally designed with the idea of automatically directing a PDI
Pilot_direction_indicator
American heavy bomber aircraft
bombers to bomb from high altitudes with the aid of the then-secret Norden bombsight, known as the "Blue Ox", which was an optical electromechanical gyrostabilized
Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress
2002 video game
which the player can man different aircrew positions. Player can use the bombsight to drop newly added ordnance onto a target like the Little Boy, Fat Man
Combat_Flight_Simulator_3
Military unit
mercury, aluminium, welding steel, 20 mm guns, ammunition, bomb prototypes, bombsights and tank blueprints; she reached Singapore on 13 July 1943. Giuliani sailed
Gruppe_Monsun
Family of short-range to long-range surface to air missile systems
target detection and follow-up, command and fire control and mid-range bombsight tests were successfully performed. In September 2020, Ismail Demir also
Hisar_(missile_family)
1st class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Focke-Wulf Fw 190D fighter, radar equipment, vacuum tubes, ball bearings, bombsights, chemicals, alloy steel, and optical glass. This class of submarines was
Japanese submarine I-52 (1942)
Japanese_submarine_I-52_(1942)
Japanese attack aircraft family
The navigator/bombardier/observer position was equipped with a Type 90 bombsight, which was a long vertical tube located in the front-left of the seat
Nakajima_B5N
First Puerto Rican to reach the rank of major general in the United States Air Force
using a B-29 Superfortress equipped with an APQ-7 radar set and a Norden bombsight rate head. This eventually led to the development of the current techniques
Salvador_E._Felices
Book by Victor Appleton
the fire-fighting grenades. To aid in dropping grenades, Tom builds a bombsight, which, when mechanically adjusted for altitude, air speed, wind, and
Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters
Tom_Swift_Among_the_Fire_Fighters
First operational jet-powered fighter aircraft
181 in) MK 108 cannon. Me 262 A-2a/U1 Single prototype with advanced bombsight. Me 262 A-2a/U2 Two prototypes with glazed nose for accommodating a bombardier
Messerschmitt_Me_262
British civil engineer (1889–1960)
seconded to the government where he was involved in the development of the bombsight which sank the Tirpitz, the Operation Pluto pipeline project and the FIDO
Arthur_Hartley
British actor and playwright (1895–1971)
Devil (1938) (writer) Under Your Hat (1940) (his play adapted for film) Bombsight Stolen (1941) (his play adapted for film) ... aka Cottage to Let (UK original
Geoffrey_Kerr
conversion introduced the following changes: Chin turret removed. Norden bombsight removed. Bombardier's station retained as a lookout post, while on ASW
List of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress variants
List_of_Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress_variants
Heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser of the Russian Navy
helicopters. All the Su-33 aircraft had been upgraded with the Gefest SVP-24 bombsights for free-fall bombs, giving them a limited ground-attack capability. Analysts
Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov
Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Kuznetsov
US Army officer (1876–1922)
improvised bombsight of Beck's design, they made three drops from 250 feet (76 m) at 40 mph (64 km/h). The drops were highly inaccurate because the bombsight was
Paul_W._Beck
Military aviation museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Projects under development include a bombardier simulator using a Norden bombsight and a simulated B-17 waist gunner position shooting down enemy aircraft
National Museum of World War II Aviation
National_Museum_of_World_War_II_Aviation
American reality television series episodes
appraised include a World War II Sperry bombsight purchased at a garage sale for $10, which turns out to be not a bombsight, but instead a compensating mechanism
List_of_Pawn_Stars_episodes
British military research project code names
– the first British nuclear weapon in service Blue Devil – T4 optical bombsight – drift and ground speed from Green Satin Blue Diamond – AA No. 7 anti-aircraft
Rainbow_Code
Division of the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center
Line on the Potomac River. Dahlgren also helped test bombsights, including the Norden bombsight, for the Navy's fledgling air forces. During World War
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
Naval_Surface_Warfare_Center_Dahlgren_Division
Military unit
evaluations on various aircraft modifications including gun, radar and bombsight installations. In addition, the Unit carried out performance tests on
Aircraft Research and Development Unit RAAF
Aircraft_Research_and_Development_Unit_RAAF
Atomic History and Science museum in Albuquerque, NM
(British nuclear weapon deployed from the 1960s until 1998) a Norden bombsight two of the actual B28 bomb casings from the Palomares hydrogen bombs incident
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
National_Museum_of_Nuclear_Science_&_History
Soviet ground attack aircraft of WWII
rarely 100 kg (220 lb). To compensate for the poor accuracy of the Il-2's bombsight, in 1943, the Soviet Command decided to use shaped-charge armor-piercing
Ilyushin_Il-2
Aerial bombing of Japan during World War II
area attacks were unavoidable because, owing to the limitations of their bombsight and the high winds common over Japan, the B-29s were incapable of bombing
Air_raids_on_Japan
Technology museum in Carlsbad, California
Duesenberg, and two aluminum cutaway World War II fighter models. A Norden bombsight is displayed in the museum's collection. Louse Chenot constructed an operational
Craftsmanship_Museum
Type of military aircraft
efforts on night bombing. But neither force was able to develop adequate bombsights or tactics to allow for often-bragged "pinpoint" accuracy. The post-war
Strategic_bomber
Island in the US state of Texas
curriculum, there were special courses on subjects such as the Norden bombsight and the magnetic anomaly detector (MAD), both highly classified at that
Ward_Island_(Texas)
Aircraft used during the raid on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945
talents of the bombardier, Captain Kermit Beahan, with both the Norden bombsight and with women. In addition to its use on the nuclear bomb missions, The
The_Great_Artiste
American defected communist spy, writer, editor (1901–1961)
Roosevelt. Another person named Vincent Reno had worked on a top-secret bombsight project at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Berle found Chambers's information
Whittaker_Chambers
Device to display an image for a given time
two types: the student would look through a lens similar to an aircraft bombsight viewfinder and read letters, words, and phrases using manually advanced
Tachistoscope
reach targets, protected by its own weapons, and bomb, using the Norden bombsight, with "pickle barrel" accuracy. Japanese aviation pioneers felt that they
Air_warfare_of_World_War_II
Heavy ground attack aircraft
built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. They were fitted with a prismatic Bombsight in the front cockpit and a cylindrical bomb carrier in the lower forward
Bomber
1941 film by Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
owner of Sky Raiders, Inc., an aircraft company. Dayton has designed a bombsight and a new high speed fighter aircraft, the "Sky Raider". Dayton recruits
Sky_Raiders
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English : variant of or patronymic from Meader.
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One who is heard
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