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Titolo
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Naval Bombing Game
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Naval Bombing Game. Features Ingenious Bombsight
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ENEMY fleet sighted! . . . On target! . . . Bombs away! . . . Here's a realistic naval bombing operation brought to your parlor floor in miniature, and a fascinating game that's bound to make a direct hit with everyone who plays—and anyone can. All the thrills of an actual aerial attack are present; the bomber “flies” over the formation of warships below, selects a carrier, battleship, or cruiser for blasting out of the sea, gets into position over it, and releases the bombs over the target.
The bomber is made almost entirely of wood and cardboard, painted olive drab, and decorated with insignia and representations of pilot's cabin, ailerons, elevators, gunner's turret, cannon, and so forth. The fuselage, wing, stabilizer, and rudder are cardboard, while the nose, tailpiece, motors, turret, wheel assemblies, and bombs are made of wood. The bombsight is an ingenious device consisting of a mirror, guide lines, and a miniature plumb bob. The only other materials needed in the construction are some small pieces of celluloid.
To make the fuselage, cut a 1 3/8” o.d. cardboard mailing tube to a length of 7 1/2”. Cut out a 1” hole with its center 7/8” from one end, and glue a celluloid strip, on which the bombsight pattern is inked or painted, over this hole, securing it also with small screws and nuts. Punch a small hole in the precise center, and through this, thread a plumb line 3/4” long with a small weight on its end. Cut a 7/16” by 7/8" opening for the bomb bay, measuring 1 5/8" from this same end of the fuselage, as shown in the drawing. For the bomb rack, extend a 1/4” wide slot on a direct line with the bombsight center to a length of 2 1/2”. To complete the fuselage, make the wing slots, as shown, and glue on the rear gun turret, which is shaped to fit the tube.
The nosepiece is made of wood, shaped as indicated, with a small mirror fastened to it at a 45-degree angle. For the tail, a piece of wood of the same diameter as the fuselage is shaped to size and a 1/2” hole is bored through it for sighting. Slots are made to receive the vertical fin and stabilizers, which are cut from cardboard, and a hole is then bored diagonally in the bottom for the tail wheel.
Cut a 12” long wing from cardboard, insert it in the slot in the fuselage, and glue it in place. The twin motors are 1” in diameter, tapered to a length of 2”, slotted for a snug fit on the wing, and bored diagonally underneath for the 3/8" dowel that supports the landing-gear assembly. Celluloid disks 2 1/4” in diameter are fastened to the motors to simulate spinning propellers.
The bombs are made from 3/8” dowel, grooved to hang in the bomb rack, while the bomb release is fashioned from 1/2” wood dowel, formed as to slide along the bomb-rack slot. This arrangement makes it a simple matter to release one bomb at a time.
Ships are of thin wood, with a 1/2” wood dowel as support. They are cut to the three shapes and sizes indicated, then painted battleship gray, and numbered as follows: cruisers, “3”; battleship, “2”; carrier, “1.”
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Autore secondario
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Myron Fleishman (designer)
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Lingua
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1943-04
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pagine
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HW 65-HW 67
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Diritti
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
