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Curated by: Alexander the ok (46 videos)
The B-29 is a beautiful aircraft. It was years ahead of anything else when it was first deployed in 1944. Yet it is also responsible for more civilian casualties than any other aircraft before or since. In addition, it killed an unexpectedly high number of its own crew. It was at the forefront of the technological superiority the US had built up by the end of WW2. And nothing is more symbolic of that superiority than the fire control system. Unique for the time, and fiendishly complex. Yet within just a few years it was already obsolete. 3D animation by Artem Tatarchenko: https://www.instagram.com/artem.iskustvo/ https://www.youtube.com/@Artem.Kak.Art./videos Thanks to @frenchfrey8655 for the suggestion. List of sources: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2m5ee5bkcd9cabio5eyre/b29_sources.ods?rlkey=ghju4kh1a4dr84yeppkv2kil6&st=iz499zl0&dl=0 Shortly before releasing this video I discovered my wording in the intro may be superficially similar to a running theme in the audiobook 'the Bomber Mafia' by Malcolm Gladwell. I have not listened to that and it is not really the kind of thing I would use as a source anyway. Playlist of video sources: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI2UlFg4eJTGqSlTPi6xEp37SypWF-As_&si=4KLA_1r51CEP9-Jz Gregg's Airplanes and Automobiles' series on the Ki-84 was also used as a source for this video and is highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRQvnCfEbNA 00:00 Intro 02:34 The Nadir 05:57 Mechanical Analog Computers 12:39 Overview of the B-29 19:01 Overview of the Fire Control System 27:29 Lead Correction 34:24 Parallax Correction 40:01 Ballistic Corrections 42:11 Putting it all Together 48:35 Everything Else 54:00 Effectiveness 1:03:18 Outro