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Aviation History
1949
1949 - 1336.PDF
xoo FLIGHT (Left) An instructor demonstrates the finer points of " winching-up." (Right) Studying a Mark XIV bombsight computer. The sighting head is behind the instructor. Academy of Accuracy .... ledge which a bombing instructor must have in to-day's and to-morrow's increasingly complex and scientific Air Force. The Manby course is one of ten weeks, the students all being qualified bomb-aimer navigators. Officers and aircrew work side by side on the same syllabus. The Directing Staff consists of specially selected ex-graduates of the course and also includes R.A.F. education officers specializing in bombing theory and ballistics, explosives, radar and aircraft electrics. Students are able to benefit, too, from the broad experience and facilities which are aiways available at the Empire Air Armament School. The first phase is the theoretical one, and six of the ten weeks are spent on it. The syllabus includes mathematics, electronics and physics, for a better appreciation of bomb ballistics and sighting theory; the chemistry of explosives and principles of bomb detonation; radar (Gee and Gee-H, Oboe and H2S); and principles of the Mk XIV vector bombsight, the stabilized automatic bombsight (used by No. 617 Squadron against Live bombs—250-pounders—have been fused by students prior to being loaded on to a Lincoln.
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