[Milsurplus] Taigh's Norden rant

[Boeing377]

Taigh wrote: 


"It also turns out that the pilots flying the aircraft had trouble
maintaining the accuracy for a stable bombing platform so they needed to
come up with a full three axis autopilot to work with the bombsight to be
able to fly the aircraft on the bomb run"


Coupling a decent ballistic computing bombsight to a decent bomber autopilot was was a perfect example of synergy.


The combo was far more than just the sum of its two parts. 



What a shame GEE/LORAN A wasn't more accurate back then. 
Can you imagine a bomber autopilot coupled to an accurate radio nav system during WW 2? 
Not so easy as GEE TD lines were hyperbolic, but not impossible. I think it could have been done using analogue computers with trig functions. 


Mark
AF6IM