Show at L kif BV ea BASIC FLIGHT instruction LESSON dumben FIFTEEN E X hankland flank Han kAnd and what about the rest 0 of the squadron Robinson They follow the leader but each of them may show better judgment than he be and though he may have failed to como come out of the dive clive that does not mean that thai the th rest will suffer the same bad luck juck however while the leader may have made his dive and gotten away laway the attack undoubtedly will have brought out combat planes and possible anti aircraft fire so that the accompanying planes ore are more apt to bo brought down by enemy fire than the leader Han kYou sold a 4 while ago that the big bombes bombers now have so 10 much speed and maneuverability that they d dont need the tho protection of combat plants planes do you mean to say that the importance of the combats is none gone Robin sonI exactly say that bombers dont need fighters hank I 1 simply said that they are no longer to so dependent on them for protection but fighters are and always will be important not only to tight fight of off combat planes attacking or attempting to attack the big bon bombers ibero but also s e the very best beat offensive against nemy enemy bombers bomber the fighters and combats are able to keep the bomb ers era at such altitudes that they cant do any accurate bombing and they played the biggest t part in keeping the german raids over the british isles from being is as effective as the derman Berm anaf hoped they woud be moreover its the fighters and the combats that bring down the bombers whenever you bear of a bomber lost chances are ten to one that it was those fast aerial dragon dragonflies flies that thai did theo th ejob job but such losses aro sro rc decreasing the bombers being turned out by both the united states and nd great britain aro are not only biger ger and faster and easier to handle they aro are also much better armored it takes somi aoma gunfire to get through ur their tough hides fian Hank k The weight of bombs bobbt they car ry must be enormous about how much 7 noes baes a big bomb hilgh robinson oh theresio the therea one size of bombs any more than there is one ona size ol 01 bomber the biggest 0 o ones nes to 0 o far ln in hii use weigh nearly two t tons ons flank po you mean two tons per amb robinson two tons per bomb bank goehl aliat a load ol of lion that hi Robinson Its just thata load of destruction A bomb contains approximately its AH big an charge as thirty arty id 16 inch shells Hant sCant caret be much lei left standi standing nj frei cr one of those follows fellows hits hiss robinson boand No and re remember ive eid been 6 talking about just bat one bomb figure what hat it counts up to when very bomber carries whole racks of those babies and that the bomb era operate ii in squadrons 1 vank Hank tho The marvel Is that anything at tu ill is left alter after a big bomber visit hut but there aro ore different types of a bombs ahrews arent there we Robin sonOh yes besides the in lend tend lary and gas bombs there are wo types of demolition bombs the tha instantaneous and the tha delayed type no use usa to go into the construction of alieto iho two types but the distinctive feature of the instantaneous typo Is that hat it explodes immediately it strikes the objective and scatters its force over ft a wide area ita the bomb best adapted for use where the objectively objective la ls low suh such as docks dumps material concentrations cent rations railroad yards and tho the uke like tho delayed action bomb to 1 better for higher tories till tall buildings and ships also tor underground concentrations or trenches its construction is such that it may pass through three or tour four stories of a building bull ding or a uko like distance into other obJect objectives lyes before it explodes you can seo see that in such a process the whole works would be wrecked whereas it if the game amo ob objective jettive got an instantaneous bomb tho the top op might be blown off end and the rest of the thing building or what no tremain unharmed Hank theris Theres a different technique for far called level bombing and for or dive bombing there robinson Robins yes there is cont considerable ider difference im no military aal atlon or dr bombing instructor my job here la Is to give you basic training and that ive been doing ive already taught you how to do the aero acro batica of flying the zoom roll rod spiral loop emmelmann Imm Imin elmann and all the rest they are aie essentially basic training tor for tho the or army my essential pilot b but ut 11 im X warning you that just knowing ho how those tricks are done does not mean youve mastered them hours upon hours houri and days upon days of practice are required before a pilot can perform the stunts with precision and precision Is essential to a bomber or fighter pilot Hank Then are or lots of things to know arent there cheref yes you love lave to watch is lot of things as you bomb to be sure to 6 hit the tha objective while you alm aim youve got cot to remember the planes nd through the air and height ovir over the ground and the speed opted of the and which takes the plane pane off its true course you have alio aho to consider thu the rate oi og the bombs fall remember Ittin ember the rite rate with height up to it its terminal velocity and jast last but not least hank there Is the height of the target to figure conits height above sea level I 1 mean lank hank but I 1 thought a modern modem bomb tools took care of most of those robinson good for you the modern modem bombsight does reduce the bombar bombardiere bombardiers diers work to a minimum it takes care ol of a lot of things automatically mati cally to give yo you an example the bombardier reads of off his air speed and his height above sea level on instruments in front of him from the information these instruments give him he can ix these variables on his sights blank sounds easy robinson it Is easy it if you know y your out mathematics A good bombardier dier must now his lets talce his work step by step lets see how he does his high level bombing not dive bombing which Is quite a different thing now in your high level bombing theres your planes speed first of all the faster aster the plano piano flies at any given height tho the earlier the bomb must be started darted on its way tho the forward speed of the bomb lags slightly behind the for ward speed of the airplane suppose the plane Is feet above the ground and la Is more or less leas directly 7 over the target you drop tho the bomb at that height and the bomb itself Is only yards behind tho tha airplane it if you are feet the bomb la in yards behind makes a difference it i robinson yes yea it certainly does the higher your plane the sooner cooner the bomb must be released why because no ho bomb drops vertically it follows a curve and its forward speed Is lost only slowly the maximum velocity of 0 almost any bomb Is reached at about feet of tall fall I 1 blank i but heard that some bombs jall fall faster than others Robinson true A german bomb rarely falls taster faster than some miles per er hour while certain british bombs drop amatt as miles in other words ft german bomb takes about 48 40 seconds to drop feet as against some 80 30 seconds for a british bomb s it a point for our side hank because you see a tatter faster bomb has a greater penetration hank you vou said something about th the wind win I 1 does that affect tho the bombardiere bombardiers bombar diers ow robinson only insofar as aa it changes the speed and relative direction of your plane but lets leta imagine wo we are on one of those thosa bombing flights here la 13 what you a see ee mank hank it II you are in a heavy bot bomber hber the bombar bombardier diers platform to is just behind the nose turret where he lies iles flat fiat on the floor to tho ground through the win dow yes the window is right there on the floor ho makes shakes note odthe of the height the speed and the temper abue and adjusts his bombing apparatus accordingly he looks through the drift wires of his bomb tight how he checks the exact course of tho the bomber you know by now that a strong aide wind may shift the plane slightly of kofl tt its path he Ile checks this variable and makes one more adjustment accordingly AU all those adjustments allow the local focal point of tho the target to appear in the sighting apparatus earlier or later as the case may be and that in my friend tells tella him exactly when to pass the bomb release billion hank boy what id fd like to dot Robinson Not so fast brother you see before the actual bombing the crew likes to mcke make a trial ruo run over the target just to make sure that everything Is right and ready for or the tha show called the bombing run the data got together on the sighting run areu are used led in the bombing run on that second run the bombardier sees the object objective lye come into his sights he watches for tho the right point and when that comes hs he presses the button and the tha bombs bomba tall fall directly on the target or so we hope if the data of the sighting run are correct flank Hank cosh Gash tha she stub and how it is it Is done in dive bombing bom bing robinson well there are two kinds kinda of dive bombing there Is precision bombing done in a slight divi dive and this bo be confused with true dive bombing the second kind the t true u d dive I 1 v e bombing its Is done let at angles in excess of 40 degrees when you dive bomb you aim the whole plane at the target and heres something ninny many people dont seem to realize the tha bomb Is released a fraction of a second after tho the pull out has begun this timing ils ill used in order to launch the bomb W with th the direction of tho the plane and I 1 to counteract the force of gravity if not counteracted that th force would tend to pull the bomb from its slight alight angle nf 0 attack attach by releasing the bomb a traction fraction of a second after the pull out begins you counteract that force of gravity Hank that certainly it Is a jab fabbo ta pull out the plans plane md and release the aa bomb in r a split second robinson certainly Is the nazis maria made that lob job eay easy you know their junkers two motored dive bomber JU 83 wi palled hav has a special apparatus that automatically pulls the plane out odthe of the diva and releases the bomb all the pilot has to do I 1 is to press that button at the right tim time over the right target easy as plo pis for him the moment he presses that button hydraulic relays relay do the tha job they shut the dive brakes ro lease the bomb and turn up tabs on the elevator and that straightens out the tha course of the raider once again flonk do we w have tricks alks that too loop robinson Robin sonI 1 guess we do hank after all dont forget we merethe we were rethe the ones who invented dive bombing we were just playing at it when w w invented it we mean to make dive bombing out of it buethe but the nazis took it up and made murder out of our pleasant stunting you remember how thosa nazi nail bombers used to rold English towns and english snipping shipping but its done much less lens frequently now the british you see found ways of dealing with the nazi dive bombers the RAF punished the plenty and they just gave up more or less Hank Precision bombing it is better than dive bombing would you s layt robinson ngon most moat certain certainly gp is if brother it does just what it says precise bombing |