Word: bombsight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was to be a "freestyle" bombing run, i.e., a visual approach was permitted, and the navigator-bombardier (now called the "observer") could make free use of his optical equipment, including a high-powered telescope in the bombsight. The Campbell Soup target was vital to the City of Merced, because on her previous flight, an unpredictable wind shift had drifted her off course, and she scored only one point out of a possible...
Despite his visual alternative, Observer Jose ("Joe") Holguin chose to strike at Sacramento by radar. Twenty-five miles from the target, Major Holguin, at his bombsight controls up forward, became the key man in the City of Merced: Beau Traylor had only to maintain air speed. His face glued to the radarscope and its tireless, swinging line of light, Joe Holguin made manual adjustments to keep the crosshairs on the pip that marked his target. Nearly everything was handled by the "K" system, the fabulous new Air Force apparatus that automatically navigates, flies the plane and releases the bomb. From...
...basic TACair battle units might be four fighter-bombers. One will carry the atomic weapon. Another will act as cover-man and possibly carry a high-altitude precision bombsight. The others will serve as tankers for the first two, and will themselves be refueled from a C-130 tanker a safe distance away from the battle area...
...Prime Minister rose slowly, savoring a minute-long ovation from the government side. His face-pink, smooth and beaming-wore a misleadingly benign, born-yesterday look. But a white handkerchief protruded like a jaunty battle flag above his pocket. Coolly Churchill adjusted his oratorical bombsight and loosed the first blockbuster...
...miles south of the Yalu. U.N. escort fighters were able to beat off Russian-built MIG interceptors, and the only loss-one of nine bombers attacking-was to flak. The pilot nursed the crippled 6-29 out over the Yellow Sea, where Lieut. Donald A. Birch used his precision bombsight to aim parachuting fellow crewmen at a tiny island. Twelve were rescued...