Dosent work that way. The guy up from has full control of the plane once they get to the area to be bombed. They fly in a straight line and the guy on the bomb sight drops the bombs
Thats the whole point of the Norden bombsight. It was build so that the U.S. bombers would be able to pinpoint german factorys from 7000+ meters altitute. The Flakvierling (Quad 20mm AA gun) did not have the range to shoot that far.
@@AJS86 the Norden Bombsight was extremely accurat. You could drop a bomb in a trashcan from 7000 meters if you realy feelt like it. The problem was that under combat conditions it was a different story. With potential damage to the bomber increasing drag, clouds covering the city and needing to be carefull so that the bombers would not crash into one a nother while releasing the bombs while flying in close formation the U.S. airforce usualy had a 33% accuracy on a factory size target while high altitute bombing. Still thats realy damn good and much better results then both the british and german bombing raids.
Freezing cold, all sorts of vibrations, flak, enemy fighter attacks, incredibly high noise levels, etcetera all while trying to release the bomb load at just the correct moment. I couldn't have done what those guys did. They were some amazing people.
Steven Piefke who would bomb civilians? 1. It will be a waste of bombs 2. It’s a war crime 3. It make no advantage by bombing civilians vs bombing military base
My dad used to gaurd the Bomb site when he was just starting out in the Army air corps, he went on in B-17's in the south pacific as a top turret gunner and flight engineer. I flew in a B-17 with my dad. he died at 97 with a bronze star. Miss ya dad
Just fantastic video....really impressive. Fantastic job showing the interior and the bombsight. Just imagine trying to operate it in combat with enemy fighters and flak all over the sky! And only 12,261 views! (so far...)
the baron they did a lot of aiming, just not much hitting lol, the sights where very accurate but combat conditions made the bombers only get about 33% accuracy which is still very impressive considering the circumstances.
OH MY GOD. This is an AMAZING video...I felt as though I was right there with you...I can only imagine the brave men who flew that beast in wartime, having to concentrate on the difficult task at hand. Engine noise, temperature and the added stress of flak, gunfire and enemy resistance added into that mix...these guys had to have been BEASTS. HEROES, in my book. #respect
Hi All - There are several more 909/B-17 vids available on my CZcams channel. It was sad to hear about the 909 and her crew recently. How did you all find this? It's gotten a lot of views the last couple days, and I'm not sure why it's become so popular recently. Thanks!
I was there that weekend! I remember the B-17 being there, as well as a B-24, and one or two other planes I cannot remember anymore. This was in Blaine MN.
I'm amazed at the timeline of the engineering and the work it took to get to the point where I'm at home looking through the lens of a ww2 bombing sights... what I saying is.. it took a world war to get people to design the plane and the targeting systems and all that restoration work to keep that plane in the air,as well as the the communications technology that went from smoke signals to a freaking handheld device that allows me to look through that sight. Jeeeeze... I'm done lol.
Dr. Anthony Debons, at the University of Pittsburgh trained bombardiers on how to use the Norden Bomb sight when it was first deployed during WWII. He was on the team that developed the systems for the U.S. Strategic Air Command.
Not sad at all. More like pathetic. Humans killing other humans because some elite pedophile banker needs more money. Humans are easily brainwashed. Killing in the name of one leader or religion.
@@ashcosmo3854 I think it's more pathetic to not have sympathy for the soldiers watching their allies die, the civilians watching their cities get destroyed :'D
@@1mplies Why are their allies dying ? Because your country has a leader who doesn't get along with another countries leader. If everyone lay down their weapons we would not need wars. Instead elite organisations and leaders play soldiers like puppets whilst they sit comfortable in their mansions.
I remember I used to have this old veteran radio operator as a neighbor who flew B-24 liberators and was shot down over Germany in 1944. One day there was an air show in town and a LIberator flew over the house on its way to the airport. That old man came sprinting out of the house when he heard it roaring overhead. I never realized just how LOUD these things were.
Was watching that video thinking "Not many people have seen that bombsight view in the course of history." A couple of thousand lucky / unlucky men would have operated that device. And they were Men, by the way, no ladies on bombers in the 40's.
I cant imagine flying in the nose of a bomber with flack blowing up around you and fighters attacking and me not crap my pants...those boys were men way before their time..not like these boys raised now a days
This honestly looks like footage from a video fame or the new Apple vision pro. What a time we live in. We can all experience this visually ourselves soon. Like next month if u really want to
My grandfather Grover W. Southard, (was stationed in India on a top secret clearance) helped engineer these bomb sights. Cool to actually see a working example.
Wouldn't be many 262 encounters. Allies had air superiority by then. I'd Be more worried about an FW190 in the early war years. Or JU88 and Do217 night fighters with their upward firing cannons.
It was claimed that with that bomb sight, you put a bomb in a pickle barrel, if only it were true , accurate, not so much , reality, that's why they eventually just started carpet bombing
They used carpet bombing when leveling cities. These things were pretty accurate for their day, but weren't useful if you weren't targeting factories or armor columns. They just figured that using giant bombers for precision bombing wasn't practical. And they're right.
Now that is how you spend retirement, save up your money, buy an old WW2 plane. And on a weekend, you and your buddies go for a fly about. That is amazing.
My Father in law was a B-17 Co pilot flying missions over Germany. His plane was shot down and he was taken as a POW. Fortunately the prison camp was liberated and he was able to return home. "Heltons Hellcats" 493rd BG-863rd BS
I wish I lived in one of those houses you flew over and saw on the scope. I’d screenshot it and get a high quality blown up shot and have it framed and tell everyone “that’s my house being aimed at by a B 17” haha. People would get so tired of hearing that story.
Gunma4412 Why are you getting angry over a comment I made two years ago? He said he was jealous that this dude was in a B-17. I was just saying that I’ve been in them. They’re pretty cool. Are you angry because you are jealous, or do you just have really bad anger issues?
I read in a biography of a waste gunner that there was yellow ice inside of the B17 on long missions, when the crew moved around needed to be extra careful not to slip on the piss
i thought the Norden here was a vaccum cleaner used in US bases in WW2, not the actual bombsight Kudos and hats off to whoever knew what i'm talking about
Imagine seeing your house and over the radio, you hear: “Bombs away!”
Dosent work that way. The guy up from has full control of the plane once they get to the area to be bombed. They fly in a straight line and the guy on the bomb sight drops the bombs
Christopher McDonald he was joking he didn’t want a history lesson donkey
Christopher McDonald and the joke was funny that he made it made me laugh
Joaquin Marquillero good joke man really made me laugh
Christopher McDonald r/whoosh
1:31 look at how happy he is
*face reveal*
😂😂😂😂😂
Derp
I would be stoked
And scary like i will bomb the shit out of you all
the veteran trying to enjoy his back yard: 👁👄👁
Lmao
ah shit were we go again
Son, wheres did you put my rifle
AsBadAsBot *here
@Joseph Because they are Japanese?!
German veteran who saw this flying be like:
HANS! GRAB THE FLAKVIERLING!
Achtung, Indianer!
Lets show those flying cowboys.
Thats the whole point of the Norden bombsight. It was build so that the U.S. bombers would be able to pinpoint german factorys from 7000+ meters altitute.
The Flakvierling (Quad 20mm AA gun) did not have the range to shoot that far.
@@prodem1065 but they couldn't. They were only able to be within 1200ft of the target in the real world. Not that accurate.
@@AJS86 the Norden Bombsight was extremely accurat. You could drop a bomb in a trashcan from 7000 meters if you realy feelt like it. The problem was that under combat conditions it was a different story. With potential damage to the bomber increasing drag, clouds covering the city and needing to be carefull so that the bombers would not crash into one a nother while releasing the bombs while flying in close formation the U.S. airforce usualy had a 33% accuracy on a factory size target while high altitute bombing. Still thats realy damn good and much better results then both the british and german bombing raids.
Freezing cold, all sorts of vibrations, flak, enemy fighter attacks, incredibly high noise levels, etcetera all while trying to release the bomb load at just the correct moment. I couldn't have done what those guys did. They were some amazing people.
They were freaking bastards. No honour for the those who killing civilians
Steven Piefke who would bomb civilians?
1. It will be a waste of bombs
2. It’s a war crime
3. It make no advantage by bombing civilians vs bombing military base
@@nakajimakuro are u serious? In every fucking war are towns bombed by planes the last one is syria? So stop trash talking
@@PETRiCH0R030 he's talking about American bombers in ww2
@@Abdototti06 ah ok, sorry. That was the war where the americans and britians killed hundred thousand of german civilians... I forgot
1:53 dayum CJ did u see that plane?
Groove street home
Hahahahaha
At least it was before I fucked everything up
Underrated
Bruh
Yes, also had the pleasure of sitting in that position at a air show
That looks terrifying
Agent Ald yeah for the target
exactly looks amazing
Huh, now I wonder, is there any cases when the ball turret just falling down when the gunner still inside.......
@@dimdimbramantyo7666 no, the ball turret material is lighter than the metal of the plane
My dad used to gaurd the Bomb site when he was just starting out in the Army air corps, he went on in B-17's in the south pacific as a top turret gunner and flight engineer. I flew in a B-17 with my dad. he died at 97 with a bronze star. Miss ya dad
I was killing houses and swimming pools in my mind.
i so haha i was doing mousekliks at right time
same lol
Oof
I took out a whole cul de sac!
are u insane?
"Blaine Bombing, 20th July, 2013"
XD
(Colorized)
@@reggiesm4460 i was just gonna add the colorized but you're already out here 39 minutes ahead! Cheers, lmao
Why did we got this video recommended, is it hinting a event
Hyron Harrison my British brain cant accept looking at the word ‘colorized’
Just fantastic video....really impressive. Fantastic job showing the interior and the bombsight. Just imagine trying to operate it in combat with enemy fighters and flak all over the sky! And only 12,261 views! (so far...)
Imagine the British RAF doing this at Night with Flack AND Night Fighters, Plus Search Lights!
and you are also driving the plane....
the baron they did a lot of aiming, just not much hitting lol, the sights where very accurate but combat conditions made the bombers only get about 33% accuracy which is still very impressive considering the circumstances.
We At 543,438 Now...
WhereWolf 1M now
He really said “Bombs away!”
Indeed
Press "Space bar" what are you waiting for?! Coming from War Thunder universe :D
Me to, but I'm on console
Hey hunter!!
Hello Hunter
Dee Jim Soo right bumper?
*forgets to set fuse delay
*dies
so sad, this plane and bomb sight, plus some passengers and crew now gone...….
@I'LL BE BACK ! Plane crashed and burned up during a bad landing a year ago. Several people on board killed.
Owner's fault. The report is pretty damn scathing.
@@Lockbar wait really?
They died for our future
@@stylishniggachannel4763 they didn't die in war
Man it's so sad that this beauty is no more.
what happened
@@cloudtail I think in crashed on landing
Abraham Louw this bomber?
@@mattwar1015 yep. sad
:(
Bombardier: lets fly to Germany
Pilot: why
Bombardier: J U S T T O V I S I T
Wait wait wait wait wait, BOMBARDIER?
lmao good joke i heard in a while
Bombardier: Bombs away!
Off to DRESDEN
OH MY GOD. This is an AMAZING video...I felt as though I was right there with you...I can only imagine the brave men who flew that beast in wartime, having to concentrate on the difficult task at hand. Engine noise, temperature and the added stress of flak, gunfire and enemy resistance added into that mix...these guys had to have been BEASTS. HEROES, in my book.
#respect
The real beast of the war was the B-29 Superfortress.
Yeah but all those men died in terrible deaths there were far more than Being BEAST they were just people who want to go home.
These birds had absolutely no ballistic protection whatsoever. Talk about the bravery that our airmen flew with. I so admire their courage.
Wow. The title undersells this video. I wasn't expecting an in-flight demonstration. What a sight to behold. (pun intended) Great video!
Random WWII Vets seeing this in the sky: *confused flashbacks*
German veterans seen this flying over their house: Hold my beer and give me that flak!
Hi All - There are several more 909/B-17 vids available on my CZcams channel. It was sad to hear about the 909 and her crew recently. How did you all find this? It's gotten a lot of views the last couple days, and I'm not sure why it's become so popular recently. Thanks!
It got picked up by the algorithm, so it got pushed to everyone’s recommended feed.
I’ve flown in a B-17, could be the same one, I still can’t get over how much acceleration this beast had on takeoff
Those two .50s in the nose just chilling there :)
Those are not .50, they are m1 not m2
p_filippo 7uz348 they’re .50 caliber machine guns.
@Gunma4412 something called ignorance
I'm sorry I thought they were m1s because of the barrel, I was wrong
So thats what theyre doing when the gunner is unconscious
p_filippo 7uz348 it’s alright we all make mistakes
Normal people : What a nice view
Psycho : SHOOT THE DAMN THING ALREADY
“Psycho” meany half the people watching, lol
@@mj6463 Germans who operated the Flak guns
lol
Pyscho
You mean all the Gamers 😹
I was there that weekend! I remember the B-17 being there, as well as a B-24, and one or two other planes I cannot remember anymore. This was in Blaine MN.
I showed my Grandpa this, and now he's doing a funny dance on the floor
Ok ...
Uh he a breakdancer ?
“What does this button do?”
**clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk** wooooooo......... **BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM** 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
Guy: just like the old days right Tom? Hahaha
*explosion*
*explosion*
The people on board: this is pretty awesome
The people below trying to enjoy an afternoon in their backyard, only to see a B-17 bomber flying overhead
I was pressing space bar when I saw houses and holding W for WEP lol
You got a hole in your left wing!
I THINK YOUR LEAKING SOMETHING
And then your pilot gets a headshot
Stop objecting Jodl!
I have mine bound to an auto drop button so I don't have to spam.
1:30
Hey! Fly over my ex-wife's house real quick!
Mine too. Seriously, she's batshit crazy.
Hanz....
...Loads the amor piercing shellls...
Mine too.......
Boomer humor
Fact Wizard Virgin humor
You're flying high and you have to see below ar that height. Such a man with nerves of steel.
camera: shows the bomb sight
me: DO IT
Google maps in 90's have a good colour and resolution..
I instinctively pressed "SPACE" multiple times on my keyboard as the sights crossed those lovely homes.
"Bombardier take out the destroyer! "
"Let's silence this flak"
Where’s this from?
@@ollie_ackbar Cod Big Red One
"Good work, Stretch."
"Stretch, you're shooting at our own planes!"
Would have looked quite a bit different at 21,000 feet rather than 1,500 feet...
And that's why they used hundreds to thousands at a time
1:54 grove street home
Lol they found it
At least it was till i fucked everything up
@Hoxton no u stfu 🤣🤣😆🤣
@NAME Damn u really hurt?
Who hurt you?
Thank you for sharing this video with us! It gives us some insight what Bombardiers saw 75 years ago.
I'm amazed at the timeline of the engineering and the work it took to get to the point where I'm at home looking through the lens of a ww2 bombing sights... what I saying is.. it took a world war to get people to design the plane and the targeting systems and all that restoration work to keep that plane in the air,as well as the the communications technology that went from smoke signals to a freaking handheld device that allows me to look through that sight. Jeeeeze... I'm done lol.
1:31
Nobody:
His face: :D
I guess CZcams recommendation brought us all hear today.
Omg im so glad you had a good recording device, the clear shot through the scope made this whole thing. EPIC!
Dr. Anthony Debons, at the University of Pittsburgh trained bombardiers on how to use the Norden Bomb sight when it was first deployed during WWII. He was on the team that developed the systems for the U.S. Strategic Air Command.
How sad it must have felt for the crew that sometimes they were intentionally targeting civilians. War is a rough time for everyone.
Yep. When the enemy is stationed near civilians that puts these crews in a shitty situation but they have to do it
Not sad at all. More like pathetic. Humans killing other humans because some elite pedophile banker needs more money. Humans are easily brainwashed. Killing in the name of one leader or religion.
@@ashcosmo3854 I think it's more pathetic to not have sympathy for the soldiers watching their allies die, the civilians watching their cities get destroyed :'D
@@1mplies Why are their allies dying ? Because your country has a leader who doesn't get along with another countries leader. If everyone lay down their weapons we would not need wars. Instead elite organisations and leaders play soldiers like puppets whilst they sit comfortable in their mansions.
@@ashcosmo3854 Then call them pathetic, not the soldiers :'D
This is a precious moment in this planes lifetime cause its old and it still works lets enjoy it.
no it crashed killed
Acharacle & Achiltibuie it crash when is there footage.
Isaiah The Gamer it crashed like a year ago, this video is 6 years old
@@grenad3rxd113 was it the one that crashed in the airport.
@@isaiahwolftail867 why are you ending your questions with a full stop instead of a question mark?
I remember I used to have this old veteran radio operator as a neighbor who flew B-24 liberators and was shot down over Germany in 1944. One day there was an air show in town and a LIberator flew over the house on its way to the airport. That old man came sprinting out of the house when he heard it roaring overhead. I never realized just how LOUD these things were.
Love to hear from that old school who was sitting in the seat at the beginning. Imagine the the things he’s seen.
“So the Johnsons think the have the best yard do they... I’ll fix that in a jiffy”
“Hey you, wake up. We’re arriving in Hiroshima soon.”
B-29 did that not a B-17
They both have that bombing system im sure
*WRONG PLANE WRONG PLANE*
*falls out of the plane when the bombs fell*
Somehow CZcams recommended it to me after 7 years...
Nice
Was just clicking random videos in my recommendations... I JUST FOUND GOLD!
Was watching that video thinking "Not many people have seen that bombsight view in the course of history." A couple of thousand lucky / unlucky men would have operated that device. And they were Men, by the way, no ladies on bombers in the 40's.
Graeme Glen Actually....they were boys. Crazy to th8nk how young even the pilots were. Even the UH1 pilots in Vietnam were only 20
Except the WACs that flew and delivered the airplanes...give credit where credit is due...
I cant imagine flying in the nose of a bomber with flack blowing up around you and fighters attacking and me not crap my pants...those boys were men way before their time..not like these boys raised now a days
"Didn't you even wonder what THIS button is for?"
The view in the scope is just great
This honestly looks like footage from a video fame or the new Apple vision pro. What a time we live in. We can all experience this visually ourselves soon. Like next month if u really want to
Don’t forget to uncage the gyro
POV: You’re Harry Truman on August 6, 1945 at 8:05 a.m
That was a B-29 ;)
@@berghesein Same bombsight though.
Thats incredible! I had the privilege of flying in a WW1 plane last summer. That was one of my greatest experiences!
Flying piece of restored history. Gorgeous view from the nose bubble. Must be a real thrill on take offs and landings. Good ones that is! 😆
2015: not yet
2016: not yet
2017: not yet
2018: not yet
2019: not yet
2020: to the main page!
Nobody:
Literally nobody:
Me: *Accidentally drop bomb*
Also me: Let's just call that as "ACCEPTABLE CASUALTIES"
Dumb
That's me playing warthunder and accidentally dropped a bomb in a house.... Or a friendly tank....
My grandfather Grover W. Southard, (was stationed in India on a top secret clearance) helped engineer these bomb sights. Cool to actually see a working example.
Imagine trying to drop bombs on target with that while being shot at and chased and having flak go off all around you. Crazy stuff man
The old man in the background said "bombs away" meanwhile as you can see there's houses underneath them
( 2:06 )
Everybody is gangsta until you hear someone said: T minus 10 to drop the little boy
Brings back old memories. Those missions over Macho Grande were pretty rough.
Imagine being in there with flak and bf-109s bearing down on you 😶 pure courage.
Imagine someone shouting behind you "OH SHIT!" and hearing ME262's sound near the plane
Messerschmitt*
could have just said ME262, i'm pretty sure everyone would understand
Wouldn't be many 262 encounters. Allies had air superiority by then.
I'd Be more worried about an FW190 in the early war years.
Or JU88 and Do217 night fighters with their upward firing cannons.
@@goodluck6948 that moment when someone makes a joke and people are angry because "allies had air superiority" bruh this isnt hoi4
Why is CZcams recommending this after the bombings
Praise to those who did this in aerial combat. Aviation combat is no joke. Awesome video.
Thanks for sharing!!! Imagine the training needed! Back then.
It was claimed that with that bomb sight, you put a bomb in a pickle barrel, if only it were true , accurate, not so much , reality, that's why they eventually just started carpet bombing
There was only one dedicated low level/precision bomber squadron.
617 Squadron. Royal Air Force.
They used carpet bombing when leveling cities. These things were pretty accurate for their day, but weren't useful if you weren't targeting factories or armor columns.
They just figured that using giant bombers for precision bombing wasn't practical. And they're right.
I was waiting for the bombs and explosions.
I'm disappointed.
Now that is how you spend retirement, save up your money, buy an old WW2 plane. And on a weekend, you and your buddies go for a fly about.
That is amazing.
Cool video, thanks to the dude getting the viewing angle just right.
I have a target fo you ... Seattle!
Some patriot just called in an air strike.
😂"bomb away!"
xd
Thank you ! Ive always wondered how Would It look like, to look through the eyepiece.
My Father in law was a B-17 Co pilot flying missions over Germany. His plane was shot down and he was taken as a POW. Fortunately the prison camp was liberated and he was able to return home. "Heltons Hellcats" 493rd BG-863rd BS
Hello fellow people who got this video in their recommended :>
On the bomber's sight at 2:19, we see you're face.
@Central Intelligence Agency +1
I wish I lived in one of those houses you flew over and saw on the scope. I’d screenshot it and get a high quality blown up shot and have it framed and tell everyone “that’s my house being aimed at by a B 17” haha. People would get so tired of hearing that story.
that targeting sight is clearer than 10 year old binoculars...
omg so jelly :O
I got to fly in many WW2 planes such as the B-29 and the B-17.
jelly is tasty
Gunma4412 Why are you getting angry over a comment I made two years ago? He said he was jealous that this dude was in a B-17. I was just saying that I’ve been in them. They’re pretty cool. Are you angry because you are jealous, or do you just have really bad anger issues?
Gunma4412 why so salty?
2:06 who’s house is that, lol, ex maybe? 🤣
stfu 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Imagine being a veteran and just like tryin to chill on your porch and you look to a B-17 flying over head
Hes the man for letting us see it for that long respect 👊🏿
1:30 That's the face impression when you and you're bois are bombing them Germans.
Everyone gangster till the video stops but the sound of the bombers engine doesn't
very cool!! thanks for the upload, i would never see this otherwise!
I read in a biography of a waste gunner that there was yellow ice inside of the B17 on long missions, when the crew moved around needed to be extra careful not to slip on the piss
Just from looking down in the sights and imagining shooting you can imagine the damage just a few of those could do to a city
so awesome to get that shot with the phone camera through the bombsight. Thanks!
Medal of Honour: Allied Assault 2 is looking really good!
i thought the Norden here was a vaccum cleaner used in US bases in WW2, not the actual bombsight
Kudos and hats off to whoever knew what i'm talking about
Oh that is my pool. For one second i was scared, but then i saw the upload date.
I felt like I'm there with yall! Fantastic video!
Video from 2013 most of the comments 2020 now I still loved seeing down the bomb sight and I see why it’s in my recommendation but still
The last thing my friend hears:
*I can see your house from up here!*