bomb aimer in a sentence

Examples

1. With the bar in this position, the bomb aimer uses the drift wires to tune out any sideways drift and thereby find the exact wind direction.
2. The B-29 s were fitted with an excellent bomb aimer  the Norden  but it could not make out its target through low cloud.
3. When bomb aimer Jack Friday, tried to release the escape hatch cover in the aircraft's nose, the rushing wind ripped it from his hands.
4. The remote console and second operator eliminated the need for the bomb aimer to look away from the sights, to make adjustments while on the bomb run.
5. This allowed the bomb aimer to select any convenient object on the ground for drift measurements, including the target itself, long before the aircraft reached it.
6. In this case the bomb aimer would dial in the same basic parameters on the various disks, and read out the proper sighting angle at the bottom.
7. From there he could access the bomb aimer's position, lit by two small underwing windows on each side, lying prone on the fuselage floor.
8. The Drift Sight eliminated the need for a stopwatch to perform this calculation, as on earlier devices, and greatly eased the bomb aimer's workload.
9. Instead, the bomb aimer had to use manual slide rule calculators to find the drift and bombing angles, and then set the bombsight to these values.
10. The bomb aimer then sights along this angle and waits for the target to appear, dropping the bombs when it appears under a notch in the backsight.