| 21. | A final stop turns off the motor when the sight is fully vertical, if the bomb aimer has forgotten to do so.
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| 22. | The bombsight is then set to that angle, and the bomb aimer drops the bombs when the target passes through the sights.
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| 23. | Johnson continued on squadron operations as an air gunner until the opportunity came along for him to train as a specialist bomb aimer.
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| 24. | The observer's cockpit was behind the pilot, where he could be rear gunner, bomb aimer, photographer or radio operator.
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| 25. | The bombs were dropped when the wires of the foresight, backsight and target overlapped as seen from the bomb aimer's position.
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| 26. | OBE ( 28 July 1923 & ndash; 25 February 2015 ) was a Royal Air Force bomb aimer during the Second World War.
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| 27. | This, in effect, demanded the use of stabilization in order to allow the bomb aimer to continue making adjustments while the bomber maneuvered.
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| 28. | Instead, directional corrections from the bomb aimer were sent to a pilot direction indicator in the cockpit, similar to the original Norden models.
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| 29. | It had a crew of two with the pilot in an open cockpit aft of the wing with a gunner / bomb aimer behind him.
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| 30. | Once set up, the bomb aimer would watch objects on the ground and compare their path to thin wires on either side of the sight.
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