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Aviation History
1934
1934 - 0435.PDF
FLIGHT, MAY 3, 1934 INDOOR BOMBING THE ROTATING MOTOR.CONTROLLED By PILOTS ROTATING RUDDER BAR..WHICH MOTOR..TURNS TABU 8. SUDE GIVING EFFECT OFAIRCRAFT TURNING, *^,/ SUDE. ^••:' CHAINROTATING TABU. FRICTION WC CABLES TABU. n?&&R A RESISTANCE THAT CONTROLSRUDDER. THE ROTATING MOTOR. 5OO CANDLE-POWER'*% ELECTWC LAMP. THE CONTROLLING MECHANISM! LOFTHE BOMBING TEACHER.. I DEVICE FOR.ALLOWING FOR TIME TAKEN f OftBOMB TO DROP. SLIDE FRICTION DISC tREPRESENTING WHEEL ROTATING AN AERIAL LEAD SCREW. THE TRAVERSING. MOTOR !MOVES THE SLIDE IN DESIRED DIRECTION BYTRAVERSING MEANS OF I HE LEAD MOTOR. SCREWS.GIVING TUEtFFECT 6F THE AIRCRAFT FLVING OVER. THE r; r • GBOUND, AT THE SAMtt s TIME SIM\JUTIN6 TUE £, EFFEOS OF WIND ON«3; THE COURSE OF THE < ~S>: AEROPLANE. 1 - LEAMCREW ij&OO 5QUAREMILES. ! TRAVERSING/WOTOR MAGNET DRJVE CAUSING NORTH POINT OF COMPASS TO ROTATE WITH THE "GROUND! THISIS NECESSARY AS THE "HRDUND* TURNS 8. THE "AIRCRAFT" REMAINS FIXED. it BOX FOR. RAISING CONTROaiNG MECHANISM „TO THE «==?> REOblREDHEI&WT. / 'IB ;I • ||: FLOOR. >HOLE CUT m FLOOR. LEAMCREW. FLCX)R.. REPRESENTINGBOMBING POSITIONIN AEROPLANE. """¥ MAGNETDR.IVL PILOT. WPIL UNDERINSTRUCTION. COURSE-SETTING BOGHT COMPASS. swrrcu, V SIGHTING\ ANGLE. 12 FEET SQUARE. INSTRUCTOR POINTING OUT AN OBJECT ON THE GROUND THAT HE REQUIRES PUPIL TO •BOMB: 1ST POSITION OF TARGET\ON GROUND \TO BE "BOMBED? CABLES FROM RUDDER. BAR. TO 'THE RESISTANCE CCmTCHW" RESTANC CCmTRC THE ROTATING MOTOft IMAGE OF "GROUND'tON TO FUJOR. AMD SLOWLY MOVING, GIVING AN ACCURATE ILLUSION OF ANAIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT- AT SO M.P.H. AT A HEIGHT OF 8.OOO FEET Little explanation is necessary for the above excellent drawing by G. H. Davis— which we reproduce through the courtesy of the " Illustrated London News," since the descriptive wording on the drawing makes it self explanatory, while on the previous page we give a more detailed description of this method of training by means of the Vickers- Bygrave Bombing Teacher 435
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