(Peter Stickney) wrote in news:i3nn4c-
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In exactly the same manner as any other bombs dropped from a Mosquito
FB. The bombs don't care if they are coming from teh bomb bay or a
wing rack. Barring any airflow disturbances, it's all pretty much the
same. Aiming would, just like manual bombing in a fighter-bomber
today, be bt a combination of using the gunsight reticle and TLAR
(That Looks About Right) techniques.

Thanks for the info. For some reason, I've always thought that
bay-mounted bombs require level laydown bombing instead
of shallow dives and glide bombing, maybe due to the fact that
I'd thought that in a dive, the bombs would hit the forward
bulkhead without a bomb crutch

But that explains a lot, though: now I realise just how those
Mosquitos could do those anti-Gestapo low-level ops with such
accuracy. It must have taken a lot of testicular fortitude and
skill with the gunsight and ballistics, but there was no need
for a long, straight, wings-level ingress for a Norden bomb
run.

Cheers,
-Stegu

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