bombsight n a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs Usage(s) When the bombsight said the time had come, the bombs fell toward the target. The B-29s yielded the Russians their design plus the Norden bombsight. The target, the U-boat works at Vegesack, near Bremen, was nearly lined up in the bombsight.
Quotes bombsight Paul Tibbets in News & Observer (registration) Tibbets called Ferebee "the best bombardier who ever looked through the eyepiece of a Norden bombsight" and selected him as a crew member on the secret project.