Bomb Sight Gun at Glen Kyser blog

Bomb Sight Gun. The most successful bomb sight design integrated a vector calculator system and was called the csbs, or course setting bomb sight. The us navy’s prayers were answered when a group of engineers, led by carl norden, developed a bombsight he once claimed “could put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.” The norden bombsight was the primary bombsight used by american bombers during wwii. Norden finished his masterpiece in 1931. Lieutenant frederick entwhistle, the navy’s chief of bombsight development, called it revolutionary, and its design was good enough that it would be used throughout world war ii and up to the vietnam war. Development had begun before the war as the automatic bomb sight, but early bomber operations proved that systems without. To use the csbs, the bombardier would dial in the aircraft’s altitude and airspeed.

Lieutenant frederick entwhistle, the navy’s chief of bombsight development, called it revolutionary, and its design was good enough that it would be used throughout world war ii and up to the vietnam war. Development had begun before the war as the automatic bomb sight, but early bomber operations proved that systems without. The us navy’s prayers were answered when a group of engineers, led by carl norden, developed a bombsight he once claimed “could put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.” Norden finished his masterpiece in 1931. To use the csbs, the bombardier would dial in the aircraft’s altitude and airspeed. The norden bombsight was the primary bombsight used by american bombers during wwii. The most successful bomb sight design integrated a vector calculator system and was called the csbs, or course setting bomb sight.

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Bomb Sight Gun The us navy’s prayers were answered when a group of engineers, led by carl norden, developed a bombsight he once claimed “could put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.” The us navy’s prayers were answered when a group of engineers, led by carl norden, developed a bombsight he once claimed “could put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.” Lieutenant frederick entwhistle, the navy’s chief of bombsight development, called it revolutionary, and its design was good enough that it would be used throughout world war ii and up to the vietnam war. Norden finished his masterpiece in 1931. The most successful bomb sight design integrated a vector calculator system and was called the csbs, or course setting bomb sight. To use the csbs, the bombardier would dial in the aircraft’s altitude and airspeed. Development had begun before the war as the automatic bomb sight, but early bomber operations proved that systems without. The norden bombsight was the primary bombsight used by american bombers during wwii.