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Title: Bombsights
Post by: Soulyss on April 29, 2010, 10:35:02 AM

Hope this is the right place for this, but I'm looking for info on how the bombsight worked during WW2.  More specifically I'm curious how the bombsights of the different combatants functioned. 

I'm vaguely familiar with the Norden that the US used and I know it didn't exactly live up to the pre-war hype for accuracy, even my Grandpa told me once that he flew with a bombardier in training that could put the bomb in the proverbial pickle barrel.  It's my understanding that it was basically a mechanical computer that the took information fed into it and calculated a release point. I'm totally ignorant of the systems used by the other allied nations and those used by the axis however.

So I thought I'd start here and see if anyone could point me towards some info.
:)

Title: Re: Bombsights
Post by: FLS on April 29, 2010, 11:02:44 AM

This site is outstanding. You just need to register.

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/technical/

Title: Re: Bombsights
Post by: Lusche on April 29, 2010, 11:08:18 AM

Quote from: Soulyss on April 29, 2010, 10:35:02 AM

I'm totally ignorant of the systems used by the other allied nations and those used by the axis however.

So I thought I'd start here and see if anyone could point me towards some info.
:)

How good is you German? I have a pdf copy of a Lotfe 7C manual somewhere on my drives ;)

Title: Re: Bombsights
Post by: Baumer on April 29, 2010, 12:00:32 PM

Soulyss, I have the Bombardiers' Information Manual and it covers the Norden (M-series) in great detail. I'll try and find someplace to post it for you.

(http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/BBS%20Stuff/Norden.jpg)

Title: Re: Bombsights
Post by: Simba on April 29, 2010, 04:46:20 PM

That's a very pretty piece of fine engineering in that there picture.  :aok