Word: autopilot
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Alert, black-haired Arpaia opened the bomb-bay doors. Now he was actually bombardier, pilot and navigator rolled into one, flying the plane through the autopilot system controls while he searched for the target in the eyepiece of his bomb sight. Bombardiers in the other planes watched sharply-a sighting run may last only 20 or 30 seconds, almost never more than one minute...