Dive Bombing Training Film

[PostumusAgrippa]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOz_i_2USkY

 

If you've even wondered why your bombs never quite hit the target, how to correctly alter your flight path in a dive, or how to correct your path after diving too soon, too late, too shallow, or too steep, this is the film for you.

 

This is an American training film from WW2, so just mentally replace all references to "Dauntless" with "Stuka" or "Peshka".  The animations and explanations of the ballistics and how they are affected by your flying is just excellent.  The standard operating procedure for American dive bombers was different from their German counterparts in a few ways, namely rolling over into the dive, and a steeper dive angle, but all the advice given in the video works nonetheless.

[-NW-ChiefRedCloud]

[PostumusAgrippa]

Thanks Chief, didn't know how to do that.

Edited November 8, 2014 by PostumusAgrippa

[-NW-ChiefRedCloud]

Your welcome .... good video too ..... thanks for posting

 

Chief

Edited November 8, 2014 by -NW-ChiefRedCloud

[Goanna1]

Very good documentary on the Stuka

from pre-war development through to wars end in 1945

[busdriver]

Rule of thumb or perhaps something of a mantra, at least in the USAF before widespread use of Precision Guided Munitions, was "Steep, Fast, Press."

 

Meaning you get more accurate bombs if you fly a steeper path, and you are faster whilst pointing your nose at the ground, and you drop at a lower altitude (that is you "press" or go below your safe/minimum drop altitude). The last bit has to do with an increased probability that you will become a "frag mort" (die from fragments of the explosion) if you drop too low.

[216th_Peterla]

Excellent info mates. Thanks for sharing. In practice from now on.

[9./JG27golani79]

Thanks for sharing - did my first steps in the Stuka today (needed 3 tries to complete a mission .. lol) and I´m thankful for every input / help :D

[indiaciki]