Timeline for Did the jet stream really stop the B-29, or was it just bad luck?
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| Jun 16, 2021 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/1405178359831842818 | ||
| Jun 15, 2021 at 16:48 | history | edited | Phil Crowther | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2021 at 16:02 | answer | added | Robert DiGiovanni | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 15, 2021 at 14:11 | answer | added | quiet flyer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 15, 2021 at 1:08 | history | edited | Phil Crowther | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 14, 2021 at 22:42 | history | edited | Phil Crowther | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 14, 2021 at 14:59 | comment | added | John K | The most amazing thing about the B-29 was its defensive fire control. The GE system wasn't just guns pointed by remote control. The gunner aimed at the target with a sighting head, but he was just sending voltages via Selsyn synchros to a central electronic analog computer and the computer did all the actual pointing the guns after correcting for all the variables, like parallax error, lead, ballistics etc. So the sight head's alignment and the gun alignment was never the same. 15 years before the concept started to be applied to flight controls, it was a true "fly-by-wire" control system. | |
| Jun 14, 2021 at 2:25 | history | edited | user14897 |
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| Jun 14, 2021 at 1:58 | history | edited | user14897 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
sentence case is more preferable on stack exchange for questions titles: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/314924
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| Jun 13, 2021 at 21:56 | vote | accept | Phil Crowther | ||
| Jun 13, 2021 at 2:29 | answer | added | John K | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 12, 2021 at 21:34 | history | asked | Phil Crowther | CC BY-SA 4.0 |