DIVE BOMBING
ee IVE bombing is as simple as throwing stones," explained Oliver Stewart, air writer and former test pilot, recently. "Instead of going through an elaborate series of operations like those a gunner goes through or a high-level bomb aimer, the dive bomber pilot takes a look at his target, stuffs the nose of his aeroplane down, and throws the bomb. There is nothing new in it. But the Germans have certainly developed dive bombing extensively and used it a lot in this war. "When the pilot makes his attack he goes into a very steep dive. It looks almost vertical. He has the air brakes on because he does not want to gain too high a speed. For he is driving not to gain speed, but to throw the bomb correctly. He sights the target so that it seems to rest just above the nose of his downward plunging aeroplane-much as the target is sighted with a rifle. And he releases his bomb as he pulls out of the dive. Notice the simplicity of the process. No elaborate calculations, no allowing for this, that and the other, no complicated instruments and switches. The bomb is simply thrown at its target,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 80, 3 January 1941, Page 2
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204DIVE BOMBING New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 80, 3 January 1941, Page 2
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