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« on: March 04, 2008, 07:34:29 PM »
Dive bombing was one of the most precision way to deliver war load on the target and it wide use was in the WW2. But the roots of this method was first time made by US aviator Leonard W. Bonney during the Mexican Civil War 1913-1915. Bonney was engaged there as scout pilot and he is searching for the enemy troops in the Moisant airplane. During this mission he has carried dynamite bombs rigged by Mexican engineers and they are released by firing of cartages. Description of his attack was:
"Bonney drops his bombs himself at the end of a dive, before leveling out, and employs no sighting device"
["Drop Dropping with Carranza", Jones, E.L., Aeronautics, London, Vol. IX, December 1., 1915]
Is there any info, images or description of this very first world dive bomber?