单词 | bombsight |
例句 | It was no more use to him than the bombsight. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z At last the indices on the bombsight crossed, tripping away the eight 500-pounders one after the other. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As a bomber, of course, it also contained bombing gear and bombsights, and all of this needed maintenance and loading. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z For flat runs, he had the Norden bombsight, an extremely sophisticated analog computer that, at $8,000, cost more than twice the price of the average American home. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The bombsight would then take over flying the plane, follow a precise path to the target, calculate the drop angle, and release the bombs at the optimal moment. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Yossarian bent away from the bombsight crookedly to watch the indicator on his left. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z If his plane was going down, Louie was under orders to fire his Colt .45 into the bombsight to prevent it from falling into enemy hands, then see about saving himself. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He buried his head in his bombsight until his bombs were away; when he looked up, everything inside the ship was suffused in a weird orange glow. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Norden bombsights were so secret that they were stored in guarded vaults and moved under armed escort, and the men were forbidden to photograph or write about them. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z A later political work about the Vietnam War superimposed bombsights on terror-stricken peasants. Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93 2013-01-21T16:04:35Z Britain’s Bomber Command was, however, unimpressed by the Norden bombsight and, after its own failed attempts to hit industrial and port targets, skeptical about precision bombing. Review | Wrestling with the strategy — and morality — of the firebombing of Japan 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Nazi spies kidnap an aircraft mechanic and try to make him talk about a new bombsight. Movies on TV this week: 'The Phantom of the Opera' on TCM 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z One thing is, however, guaranteed: some poor souls will be at the other end of those bombsights and rifle barrels. The coming of a social-distancing version of war 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Near vats of homemade wine, there was an old Norden bombsight, a pivotal technology used by bombers during World War II for aiming. In Queens, a Man Culls Relics From the Junk 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Navy opened a secret manufacturing plant on the east side of Indianapolis to produce bombsights, devices that helped World War II pilots gauge when to release bombs. World War II-era Navy plant modernizes, expands 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z The raids resulted in large aircraft losses and highlighted defects in the Norden bombsight — it was complex to operate and, being dependent on visual target sighting, ineffective in bad weather. Review | Wrestling with the strategy — and morality — of the firebombing of Japan 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z “The secret radar bombsight built by Philco,” the electronics manufacturer told readers, featured technology that “will bring you the newest developments in the enjoyment of radio and recorded music.” Reading 1945’s Signs of Peace in Life Magazine 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Inside were three large boxes filled with destructive implements: bomb fuses, a flare gun, a black metal device called an intervalometer and a hulking 50-pound contraption known as a Norden bombsight. The Unbreakable Laura Hillenbrand 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z He moved the bombsight from side to side. World War II airmen fly again in storied B-29 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Michigan Maple wooden floors_designed to mitigate shock waves from bombsight manufacturing and testing_are still abundant, stretching several hundred feet down some corridors. World War II-era Navy plant modernizes, expands 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z There was a development program there for another important technology: the Norden bombsight. F.Y.I.: Answers to Questions About New York 2012-03-10T06:05:40Z Squinting back down the telescoped years as he had once through bombsights to that recently freed city, after the war & burnt out trams to how they first met. Unmanned The bombsight, which was largely developed before the war, was built into American bombers and used in raids on Germany, in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. F.Y.I.: Answers to Questions About New York 2012-03-10T06:05:40Z The bombsight was also an extraordinarily public “top secret.” F.Y.I.: Answers to Questions About New York 2012-03-10T06:05:40Z |
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