. Dahlgren. Dahlgren Laboratory. Range Operations 51. Mr. Donald W. Stoner joined the Dahlgren Laboratory in 1935 and was closely associated with the range operations for over 30 years. determine the range the bomb took. Out of this, information could be gained that would tell how the bombsight was working, so far as the inherent errors in the system were concerned, and also they could calibrate the bombs in terms of aerodynamic performance. Different bombs all had a different ballistic coefficient that was determined by these drops, so there was a lot of work on calibration of bombs. Then the
. Dahlgren. Dahlgren Laboratory. Range Operations 51. Mr. Donald W. Stoner joined the Dahlgren Laboratory in 1935 and was closely associated with the range operations for over 30 years. determine the range the bomb took. Out of this, information could be gained that would tell how the bombsight was working, so far as the inherent errors in the system were concerned, and also they could calibrate the bombs in terms of aerodynamic performance. Different bombs all had a different ballistic coefficient that was determined by these drops, so there was a lot of work on calibration of bombs. Then there were experimental bombs that were brought down, and objects, mines—all sorts of things to be dropped. Also during that period, the Navy was developing some fuzes for bombs which were to be used against ships, and, of course, they were primarily concerned with the ship's deck. The ship's deck that you see looking down on the ship is normally the weather deck and is con- structed of relatively thin steel on an armored ship—maybe not over V2 to 1 inch thick. Then down under that is heavier steel which might be the armored deck or you might go through one more deck before you get down to the real. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McCollum, Kenneth G. Dahlgren, Va. : Naval Surface Weapons Center
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