Talk:Mark XIV bomb sight

Not titled
> The task was contracted out to the Sperry Gyroscope Company, who re-engineering it to meet American standards,

What does this actually mean?Blaise (talk) 20:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It usually means that historically-different standard things like screw threads are changed from UK ones (BSW or BSF) to US ones such as AF, etc. Also some dimensions may be changed slightly to allow use of different bar stock sizes, tolerances/clearances, etc. I've added a link in the article. Ian Dunster (talk) 09:49, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * It's worth pointing out that such a conversion is not as simple as it might seem. As the "computor" is driven by mechanical motion of parts, any changes in those parts, even due to different sets of measuring units, can cause it to be wildly inaccurate. It was no mean feat for the UK and US versions to be built on separate drawings and still be 100% interchangeable! Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:12, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Air Publication AP 1730A
Doesn't look like a published source. Keith-264 (talk) 23:51, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
 * It must have been, I have a copy! Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:35, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Found a current link here in the archives. Maury Markowitz (talk) 11:36, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Naming
What's up with the title and bolded term in the first sentence? Is this a "bombsight" (like the article prose uses), "Bomb Sight" (like the bolded term) or "bomb sight" (like the title, and possibly the preferred term in the UK)? — This, that and the other (talk) 10:21, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Pre-TFA review
Hi Maury and other interested editors. This is to let you know that as a part of preparing this article for TFA I will be lightly running an eye over it for MoS-compliance and grammar, and possibly tweaking a little of the language to ensure that it is at it's very best for its appearance on the main page. If you have any queries about any of the edits don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:48, 17 December 2019 (UTC)