This accuracy allowed direct attacks on ships, factories, and other point targets. Together, these features seemed to promise unprecedented accuracy in day bombing from high altitudes in peacetime testing the Norden demonstrated a circular error probable (CEP) of 23 metres (75 ft), an astonishing performance for the era.
The Norden further improved on older designs by using an analog computer that constantly calculated the bomb's impact point based on current flight conditions, and an autopilot that let it react quickly and accurately to changes in the wind or other effects. It was the canonical tachometric design, a system that allowed it to directly measure the aircraft's ground speed and direction, which older bombsights could only measure inaccurately with lengthy in-flight procedures.
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XV, known as the Norden M series in Army service, was a bombsight used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the United States Navy during World War II, and the United States Air Force in the Korean and the Vietnam Wars. This series of films provides a rare look at the operation of the bombsight as it was presented to bombardiers. A typical training set-up is seen, with the Norden being operated in a hangar, using a piece of equipment as a distant "target".ĭuring the entire war the Norden was considered a top secret piece of equipment and normally when it was shown in training films, it was hidden behind a piece of canvas or otherwise "blacked out". One of a series of classified films made for training by the Army Air Forces during WWII, this film about the Norden Bombsight focuses on the operation of the device. M-Series Bombsight Norden Bombsight Preflight Procedure Field Inspection and Care Cold and Hot Weather Operation Bombing with Defective Bombsight Glide Bombing Attachment X-1 Reflex Sight īombs AN-M56A1 AN-M66A1 AN-M65A1 AN-M64A1 AN-M58A1 AN-M57A1 AN-M40 Fragmentation Bomb AN-M30A1 AN-Mk1 Armor-Piercing Bomb AN-Mk47 Depth Bomb M-47A2 Smoke Bomb (Phosphorous) M70 Gas Bomb AN-M12 Incendiary Cluster Bomb Fuzes B-17 Bomb Racks and Controls Intervalometer B-24 Bomb Racks and Controls B-29 Bomb Racks and Controls A-26 Bomb Racks and Controls Caliber. Section 4: Instrument Calibration and Navigationįree Air Temperature Gage Airspeed Indicator Altimeter Magnetic Compass Gyro-stabilized Flux Gate Compass Astro-compass Pilotage Navigation Dead Reckoning Navigation Radio Navigation Ĭ-1 Autopilot Preflight Procedure Engaging Procedure Flight Adjustments Formation Stick Due to its large size, you can view/download this document in the following separate sections, depending on your interests.īombardier's Kit Jackbox Microphones Radio Telephone Alphabet īombing Problem Bombing Tables Bombing Errors Bombing Analysis Į-6B Computer Automatic Bombing Computer C-2 Computer AN Computer G-1 Computer Time-of-Run Computations To Cite this website as a research source:Īrmy Air Forces Collection, "Bombardiers' Information File (BIF)" (item 000022), AAF Collection, (accessed 24 September 2021). To Tweet about this item at Twitter, click Tweet (Then use your browser's Print command, followed by Back to return here.)
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