B-29 Gun Turrets made by GE Schenectady

This WW2 project was a major step forward in automation and aviation. Featuring graphic diagrams and interviews with surviving veterans this explains the basics of the project. The automatically controlled gun turrets would allow the Beoing B-29 to go to higher altitudes to escape attack. The turrets could target incoming fighters and predict future positions using a mechanical fire control computer. Interviews: Ted Brown, Richard Sills, Walter Bardsley, narration by Ernie Tetrault

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Schenectady
• Edison Exploratorium
• B-29
• Airplane
• GE
• General Electric
• Plant
• history
• world war two
• avionics
• attack
• japan
• bombers

[hetmanbasza]

Yankee engineering at its finest!

I would like to hear the simple explanation of how they fitted into the solution the allowance for humidity, bullet drop, air temperature etc. without the unse of a "computer".

[jsm666]

Radar ranging for the gun turrets? I didn't know the B29 had that!!

[djdeiter]

wow, what an art simple computation was back then

[doncoro]

Very interesting !