my father would often give me little things around the house to keep me busy, like accronyms to figure out. One day, he asked me to look up and tell him what the TLAR bombsight was. Well, after countless hours of looking in Janes aircraft, and half a library later with no sucess, i finally gave in and asked him what it was.

Holding out his fist, he extended the thumb up and said " This is a TLAR bombsight" Some pilots actually used it in korea and viet nam: what they would do is hold their arm out, with their thumb up and level with the face, and when the target lined up with the top of the thumb, the range was just about there and the pilot would release his weapons. And that was the origin of the That Looks About Right bombsight.

Incidently, according to him, clipped nails could throw you off a whole bunch....

And the worst thing about this is that it probably worked (most of the times...)

Sounds kind of like the way you aim an M203 grenade launcher, and that thing is pretty daggone accurate.

Sounds kind of like the way you aim an M203 grenade launcher, and that thing is pretty daggone accurate.
Well, as accurate as it NEEDS to be.

Originally Posted by Redleg

And the worst thing about this is that it probably worked (most of the times...)

Just so long as you're not deformed.