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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
Aircraft system for aiming bombs
a series of increasingly sophisticated bombsight designs dedicated to high-altitude level bombing. Bombsights were first used before World War I and have
Bombsight
Targeting device on US bombers during World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War
known as the Mark III. It was already realized that one major source of error in bombing was levelling the aircraft enough so the bombsight pointed straight
Norden_bombsight
Bombsight used by the RAF during World War II
Bomb Sight and Low Level Bombsight, Mark III were used in specialist roles. The Low Level Bombsight was built using parts of the Mark XIV, stabilized
Mark_XIV_bomb_sight
Bombing procedure
Guinea. Index of aviation articles Bouncing bomb Toss bombing Low Level Bombsight, Mark III Kuhn, Tom (April 1998). "Ideas That Lift the Air Force". Airman
Skip_bombing
World War II British heavy bomber aircraft
and was soon changed in favour of more advanced designs. Mark XIV bombsight A vector bombsight where the bomb aimer input details of the bombload, target
Avro_Lancaster
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
American bombsight series
more accurate than the US Navy's Mark III or the Army's Mk. I, and twice as accurate as the older Michelin bombsight designs. A series of minor updates
Estoppey_D-series
British military scientist and merchant banker
researchers developed an improved bombsight for naval bombers. This may have been the Low Level Bombsight, Mark III, designed by Bomber Command's Operational
William_"Bill"_Ralph_Merton
First airborne, ground scanning radar system WWII
1950s era Mark IX that equipped the V bomber fleet and the English Electric Canberra. In the V-force, Mark IXA was tied into both the bombsight and navigation
H2S_(radar)
British Royal Air Force during the Second World War
its aircraft: the vector sight and the tachometric sight. The vector bombsight required the bombardier to input data before the attack, including the
Royal Air Force in World War II
Royal_Air_Force_in_World_War_II
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
Bomber class made for attacking ground targets with small bomb loads over short distances
built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was fitted with a prismatic bombsight in the front cockpit and a cylindrical bomb carrier in the lower forward
Light_bomber
American bombing of Japan on April 18, 1942
cone. Replace the Norden bombsight with a makeshift aiming sight devised by pilot Capt. C. Ross Greening. Dubbed the "Mark Twain", its materials cost
Doolittle_Raid
Fast battleship class of the United States Navy
high-altitude bombing using armor-piercing bombs. Developments such as the Norden bombsight further fueled these concerns. While the design of the Iowas was too far
Iowa-class_battleship
British medium bomber
navigation trainers. A total of 63 were built at Weybridge. Fitted with Sperry bombsight. The B.VI's high-altitude fuselage design optimised for pressurisation
Vickers_Wellington
Early British jet bomber
typically operated in the low-level bombing role, taking responsibility for South Vietnam's southernmost military regions, regions III and IV, and allowing
English_Electric_Canberra
British jet-powered delta wing strategic bomber
(Blue Devil) bombsight, in many B.2s, this space housed a vertically mounted Vinten F95 Mk.10 camera for assessing simulated low-level bombing runs.
Avro_Vulcan
1939 bomber aircraft family by Consolidated Aircraft
turret, which reduced the B-24s vulnerability to head-on attacks. The bombsight was located below the turret. Long-range naval patrol versions often carried
Consolidated_B-24_Liberator
1943 U.S. strategic bombing campaign of oil refineries in Ploiești, Romania during WWII
000 L) at the cost of some of the bombload. The Norden bombsights were replaced with low-level bombsights and the lead B-24s - which were expected to suppress
Operation_Tidal_Wave
Transparent display presenting data within normal sight lines of the user
instruments to a bombsight. This led to the concept of a "Strike Sight" that would combine altitude, airspeed and the gun/bombsight into a single gunsight-like
Head-up_display
Ranged weapon assistance system
plane is maneuvering. Most bombsights until this time required that the plane maintain a constant attitude (usually level), though dive-bombing sights
Fire-control_system
1940 US medium bomber
Marauder Mk III. The F-2 had the Bell M-6 power turret replaced by an M-6A with a flexible canvas cover over the guns. The T-1 bombsight was installed
Martin_B-26_Marauder
German twin engine multirole combat aircraft
accordingly modified and dive brakes were removed. With an advanced Stuvi dive-bombsight, accuracy remained very good for its time. The maximum bomb load of the
Junkers_Ju_88
British multi-role combat aircraft of WW2
low-level daylight attacks finished on 27 May 1943 with strikes on the Schott glass and Zeiss instrument works, both in Jena. Subsequently, when low-level
De_Havilland_Mosquito
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
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
Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1918–1944)
squadron was selected for special training in the use of two kinds of new bombsight for use with a special bomb designed for attacks on capital ships. However
Guy_Gibson
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
mechmachtheory.2007.07.003. hdl:10261/30460. ISSN 0094-114X. "Norden M9 Bombsight". National Museum of the USAF. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29
History_of_computing_hardware
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)
British early heavy bomber aircraft
bombing accuracy, the Vimy was equipped with the High Altitude Drift Mk.1a bombsight. Standard equipment also included two Michelin-built Mk.1 flare carriers
Vickers_Vimy
Cold War-era American jet bomber
Most production versions had a metal nose with no windows. A K-series bombsight provided integrated radar navigation and visual navigation, the optical
Boeing_B-47_Stratojet
Royal Air Force formation during World War II
Following the production of the 600 lb depth bomb, a Mark III angular-velocity, low-level bombsight was developed. At the eighth meeting of the Anti-Submarine
RAF Coastal Command during World War II
RAF_Coastal_Command_during_World_War_II
American twin-engined fighter of WWII
formation bombing "pathfinders" or "droopsnoots", fitted with a Norden bombsight or an H2X radar system. Such pathfinders would lead a formation of other
Lockheed_P-38_Lightning
British long-range maritime patrol aircraft
between the Indian and Atlantic oceans. The Shackleton was briefly used in low-level overland patrols along the Southern Rhodesian border, but these operations
Avro_Shackleton
1946 nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll
characteristics, but none was convincing. Images of the drop were inconclusive. The bombsight was checked and found error free. Pumpkin bomb drops were conducted and
Operation_Crossroads
William; Robb, Raymond L; Anderson, Lee (7 January 2011). MH-53J/M Pave Low III/IV Systems Engineering Case Study (Report). Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio:
List of military electronics of the United States: A–G
List_of_military_electronics_of_the_United_States:_A–G
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
Optical device for aiming
fighter aircraft, they were used with aircraft defensive guns and in bombsights. Reflector sights as aircraft gun-sights have many advantages. The pilot/gunner
Reflector_sight
Electromechanical fire control computer
hardware used by the United States included: Norden bombsight US bombers used the Norden bombsight, which used similar technology to the rangekeeper for
Rangekeeper
British bomb aiming system
included a bombsight computer, known as "Micestro", to determine the proper release time; there was no particular logic in carrying the bombsight on the Mosquito
Oboe_(navigation)
World War II German light bomber
carry heavier loads of up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) each. A Lotfe A, or B bombsight was issued together with the BZA-2 aperture (a modernised optical lens
Dornier_Do_17
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
American heavy bomber aircraft
bombers to bomb from high altitudes with the aid of the secret Norden bombsight, known as the "Blue Ox", which was an optical electromechanical gyrostabilized
Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress
happiness and spaghetti sauce (TED2004) The strange tale of the Norden bombsight (TEDGlobal 2011) The unheard story of David and Goliath (TEDSalon NY2013)
List_of_TED_speakers
anti-aircraft gun directors and prediction units Supercharger impellers Norden bombsight IBM 805: IBM Test Scoring Machine, 1938 IBM 820 Time Punch IBM 9902: Test
List_of_IBM_products
essential products. The product line expanded to include Sperry and Norden bombsights, Browning Automatic Rifles, the M1 Carbine, and engine parts, comprising
History_of_IBM
WWII German strategic bombing campaign
techniques. A small number of bomb-aimers were to use their Lotfernrohr 7 bombsights on individual flares to increase the accuracy of the attack. The attack
Operation_Steinbock
plants employed 100,000 in the construction of engines, aluminum sheeting, bombsights, and other components. The Great Migration, which had been on pause due
History_of_Chicago
1940 plan for German invasion of Britain
2013 – via Google Books. Larew 1992, pp. 245–47. Messerschmitt Bf 110 Bombsights Over England: Erprobungsgruppe 210 in the Battle of Britain by John Vasco
Operation_Sea_Lion
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