Did the Germans have the Norden bombsight?

"Emmanuel Gustin" wrote in message ...
"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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As I said, all I can see in a
seven-hour flight is half an hour, though that of course is the
schedule, and perhaps one can't predict sufficiently far in advance
for a schedule. I certainly never recall being on a BOS-LON flight
that got there an hour early, never mind two hours!

That may depend on the airline. My experience on cross-Atlantic
flights is that the scheduled time difference is 45 minutes, and
that the flight "downwind" is the one more liekly to arrive on time,
even if there are delays at departure.

BTW, if it's called jet stream because of jets, what did the 20th AF
call it in 1945?

The Germans named it "Strahlstroemung" in 1939, well before
jet aircraft were around. Jet stream is the straightforward
translation.

My favourite word is "Duesenstrahljaeger".

[French, from Old French, from jeter, to spout forth, throw, from
Vulgar Latin *iectre, alteration of Latin iactre, frequentative of
iacere, to throw. See y- in Indo-European Roots.]