Point of release and impact
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(9) As the airplane flies at a constant speed and
the bomb travels over the ground at
a diminishing
speed, the plane will therefore travel farther over
the ground between time of release and time of bomb
This distance that the
airplane travels is called whole range.
The dis-
tance the bomb travels is actual range, and the
difference between whole range and actual
is
The angle formed by
the point of impact,
the alrplane at Instant of bomb
Impact, and the
vertical beneath the plane at that instant is
called the trail angle.
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