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Offline frank3

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Re: Manual Calibration
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2009, 06:32:48 AM »
Quote from: Plazus on May 13, 2009, 01:24:19 PM
Yes, I believe so. It also calculated atmospheric pressure as well as crosswinds. I think the Norden bombsight was used in the B29.

Wasn't the Norden used in most American aircraft? Im pretty sure it was used in the B-17 aswell.
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Re: Manual Calibration
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2009, 05:05:56 PM »
Quote from: frank3 on May 14, 2009, 06:32:48 AM
Wasn't the Norden used in most American aircraft? Im pretty sure it was used in the B-17 aswell.

You are correct.  It was the standard bomb sight on all US Bombers.  It was not used in the Doolittle raid on Japan on April 18, 1942 because they didn’t want bombsight recovered ,  they expected many of the raiders not to return.
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