[303rd-Talk] Twelve O'Clock High

[Gary Moncur]

> POSITION DATA INDICATOR,
> 
> It is an instrument that in the B-17's case was (I believe) driven by
> the bombsight to keep the airplane on the correct heading towards the
> target.
>   I believe it was a fly-to indication - meaning a deflection to the
>   right 
> means a correction to the right . The pilot was to keep it centered as
> best he could to arrive at the target after leveling out at the IP (
> Initial point - the start of the bomb run)
> 

Thanks much and thanks to Hal, Bill and others also.

Gary
-- Gary Moncur
         303rd Bomb Group (H) Historian
         http://www.303rdBG.com