Norden bombsight
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The Norden Mk. XV, known as the Norden M series in U.S. Army service, is a bombsight that was used by the United States Army Air Forces and the United States Navy during World War II, and the United S
The Norden bombsight at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. This example is only the bombsight itself; it does not include the associated autopilot that would normally connect to it on the bottom.
Norden bombsight on display at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, with the stabilizer assembly attached
Enola Gay bombardier Thomas Ferebee with the Norden bombsight on Tinian after the dropping of Little Boy
A Norden bombsight in the nose of the B-29 FIFI
The Stabilised Automatic Bomb Sight was a Royal Air Force bombsight used in small numbers during World War II. The system worked along similar tachometric principles as the more famous Norden bombsigh
The Stabilised Automatic Bomb Sight was rather complex looking. The bombsight proper is the clock-like device in the centre, much of the framework around it is the stabilizer system that keeps it pointed at the ground while the aircraft moves.
