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Luig |
Posted: Dec 8 2018, 05:03 AM
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FA-18F Super Hornet (A44) ![]() Group: ADF Serials Team Posts: 2,011 Member No.: 80 Joined: 8-March 06 ![]() |
Any information (with links if possible) about the RAAF Canberra Bomb Sight used by No.2 Squadron in Vietnam will be appreciated. TIA
This post has been edited by Luig on Dec 8 2018, 05:03 AM |
Luig |
Posted: Dec 8 2018, 02:46 PM
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FA-18F Super Hornet (A44) ![]() Group: ADF Serials Team Posts: 2,011 Member No.: 80 Joined: 8-March 06 ![]() |
Was this the one: Stabilized Automatic Bomb Sight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilized_Au...atic_Bomb_Sight https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...ight_Mk._II.jpg Attached Image ![]() |
Luig |
Posted: Dec 9 2018, 12:01 AM
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FA-18F Super Hornet (A44) ![]() Group: ADF Serials Team Posts: 2,011 Member No.: 80 Joined: 8-March 06 ![]() |
It seems a 'T-4' bomb sight was used - but what is that?
RAAF Base Amberley Oral History Recording 24 Sep 2015 George Hatchman - Warrant Officer (Retired). Historian. 23 Squadron Association "...my job was to maintain the serviceability and the accuracy of the T-4 bomb sites [SIGHTS] to support the Canberra bombing and training programs...." http://www.defence.gov.au/id/_Master/docs/...Transcripts.pdf (0.5Mb) |
Aardvark |
Posted: Dec 9 2018, 10:58 AM
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General Dynamics F-111 (A8) ![]() Group: Members Posts: 241 Member No.: 3,706 Joined: 1-October 10 ![]() |
I will do some images of the bombsight, computor and associated controls on Tuesday and post them. "Yes Computor"
The T4 was a follow on from the T1 (Lancaster) and from what I can see the T2 was fitted to early Canberras then upgraded to T4. |
Luig |
Posted: Dec 9 2018, 01:10 PM
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FA-18F Super Hornet (A44) ![]() Group: ADF Serials Team Posts: 2,011 Member No.: 80 Joined: 8-March 06 ![]() |
Thanks very much 'Aardvark'.
This post has been edited by Luig on Dec 9 2018, 01:11 PM |
Luig |
Posted: Dec 10 2018, 04:36 AM
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FA-18F Super Hornet (A44) ![]() Group: ADF Serials Team Posts: 2,011 Member No.: 80 Joined: 8-March 06 ![]() |
F-16.net in the F-35 sub forum of all places astonishingly in an A-10 v F-35 thread a bunch of information about the T-4 has been posted along with links to images.
http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=...iebloke#p407062 THUMBNAIL image from: https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/393377 "Electro-Mechanical Computor - H & B Precision Engineers, Type-T4, Bombsight, Manchester, Great Britain, circa 1959 Photographer: Matilda Vaughan; Source: Museums Victoria" Better quality images at F-16.net link or original source. This post has been edited by Luig on Dec 10 2018, 05:01 AM Attached Image ![]() |
Luig |
Posted: Dec 11 2018, 09:43 AM
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Text via e-mail from RAAF Canberra pilot about the T-4/T4 bombsight in use from his pilot perspective (not Navigator).
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Luig |
Posted: Mar 21 2020, 05:54 AM
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FA-18F Super Hornet (A44) ![]() Group: ADF Serials Team Posts: 2,011 Member No.: 80 Joined: 8-March 06 ![]() |
Just thought this NORDEN bombsight story may be of interest in PDF attached.
Norden Bombsight - AIR & SPACE Magazine May 2020 CHRIS KLIMEK IT TESTED MORE IMPRESSIVELY THAN IT FOUGHT, BUT ITS MARKETING HIT THE BULLSEYE. “CARL L. NORDEN’S bombsight calculated a bomb’s drop point based on the delivery aircraft’s speed, range to target, wind, and other variables, causing it to be touted during World War II (among those with the security clearance to know of it) as a miracle device that would destroy targets with pickel-barrel accuracy from 20,000 feet. The U.S. military spent $1.1 billion in 1940s dollars to build 90,000 Nordens, each one a 50-pound analog computer comprising 2,000 intricately joined parts including gyros, motors, gears, mirrors, and levers. If their aircraft were fatally hit, bombardiers were under orders to destroy the secret machine rather than allow it to be captured. While showing great promise in daylight testing, in combat, it failed to produce notably better results than similar devices fielded by other air forces. By the time the United States entered the war, the Germans had copied Norden’s synchronous- release, gyroscopically-stabilized design thanks to a spy at Norden’s factory named Hermann Lang.” This post has been edited by Luig on Mar 21 2020, 11:23 AM Attached File ( Number of downloads: 89 ) ![]() |
Luig |
Posted: Mar 21 2020, 05:59 AM
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NORDEN Bomb Sight from the PDF above Air & Space Magazine May 2020.
Photo Caption: "This Norden M-9 is installed in the B-17G Shoo Shoo Baby, assigned in 1944 to the 91st Bomb Group based in England. All Nordens had a rubberized eyepiece, which often created a black circle around the bombardier’s eye." This post has been edited by Luig on Mar 21 2020, 01:27 PM Attached Image ![]() |
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