B 29 bombing accuracy

[EskimoJoe]

Dibs on the first in for the Bug Reports forum 

[hitech]

Gents you are aiming from  the front of the aircraft, and the bombs are dropping from center / rear of aircraft. This distance is the error you are seeing.

HiTech

[DeadStik]

Gents you are aiming from  the front of the aircraft, and the bombs are dropping from center / rear of aircraft. This distance is the error you are seeing.

I had wondered about this. The distance seems bigger than the length of the aircraft, but I'm probably wrong. However, IRL, would the bombsight have incorporated this distance error or is this how it was?

[grizz441]

However, IRL, would the bombsight have incorporated this distance error or is this how it was?

Was wondering the same thing.

[Smkn]

While not a perfect line up. It looks like the sight is way more off then just the distance from the Bombbays / Bombsight






The distance from Bombbay infact doesn't look all that farther a distance then any other bomber.


Thanks for TWCCajun for being a photographic lacky!

-Smkn-

[hyzer]

Figures I've read were that the Circular Error Probability, CEP,  for a bomb hit for a B17 using a Norden bomb sight was one mile.  So they didn't really care about 40 or 50 feet of aircraft.

[DeadStik]

Special thanks to Smkn for adding such in depth examples and explanations. It would appear the error is greater than the distance from the bomb-sight to the bomb-bay doors.