Noun
a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
Source: WordNetConditions in the European theatre made it very difficult to achieve the accuracy that had been possible using the exceptional and top-secret Norden optical bombsight in the clear skies over the desert bombing ranges of Nevada and California. Source: Internet
Even with its faults, the Norden bombsight was a technological marvel for its day. Source: Internet
Bowman 2005, p. 20. Design Overview B Mk IV nose closeup showing bombsight and clear nose, plus engine nacelles and undercarriage. Source: Internet
This event must have rattled Norden, who held Germans as untrustworthy and yet employed numerous craftsmen of German descent in the manufacture of his bombsight. Source: Internet
Gunston 1980, p. 122. Diving procedure Ju 87 diving procedure Flying at convert, the pilot located his target through a bombsight window in the cockpit floor. Source: Internet
Lieutenant Frederick Entwhistle, the Navy’s chief of bombsight development, called it revolutionary, and its design was good enough that it would be used throughout World War II and up to the Vietnam War. Source: Internet