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	Kerrison Predictor - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Kerrison Predictor was one of the first fully-automated anti-aircraft predictors, fire control systems which would attempt to predict the correct aim at a plane based on simple inputs like the observed speed and angle to the target.
		The Kerrison Predictor was developed after it had been realized that modern aircraft on the attack flew too quickly for existing traversal systems on medium-sized guns to work.
		All of these inputs were fed in via dials, which turned gearing inside the Predictor to calculate the range (from the change in angle and estimated speed) and direction of motion, generate the correct lead needed based on that calculation, and the "output" the result by moving a small pointer mounted on the gun.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /kerrison_predictor.htm (748 words)

	Kerrison Predictor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Kerrison Predictor was one of the first fully-automated anti-aircraft predictors, which would attempt to predict the correct aim at a plane based on simple inputs like the observed speed and angle to the target.
		Such devices had been used on ships for gunnery control for some time, but the electromechanical Kerrison was the first to be fast enough to be used in the demanding high-speed anti-aircraft role.
		The Predictor proved to be able to hit practically anything that flew in a straight line, and it was particularily effective against dive bombers.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/k/ke/kerrison_predictor.html (775 words)

	Kerrison Predictor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kerrison Predictor was one of the first fully-automated anti-aircraft predictors, Fire-control systems which would attempt to predict the correct aim at a plane based on simple inputs like the observed speed and angle to the target.
		Inputs to its calculations included wind speed, gravity, ballistics of the gun and the rounds it fired, angle to the target in azimuth and altitude, and a user-input estimated speed.
		Some of these inputs were fed in via dials, which turned gearing inside the Predictor to calculate the range (from the change in angle and estimated speed) and direction of motion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kerrison_Predictor (1031 words)

	Kerrison Predictor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The gunners simply kept the pointer in the middle of the gunsight and loaded, while the gunnery operators simply had to point the Predictor, mounted on a large (A three-legged rack used for support) tripod, at the target.
		To produce the Predictor, (Click link for more info and facts about Singer Corporation) Singer Corporation was contracted in December 1940 to produce 1,500 a month to equip the Army's existing 37mm guns while production of the Bofors ramped up.
		Nevertheless the Predictor demonstrated that effective gunnery required some sort of reasonably powerful computing support, and in 1944 (Click link for more info and facts about Bell Labs) Bell Labs started delivery of a new system based around an (A computer that represents information by variable quantities (e.g., positions or voltages)) analog computer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ke/kerrison_predictor.htm (889 words)

	Kerrison Predictor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Kerrison Predictor was one of the first fully-automated anti-aircraft predictors fire control systems which would attempt predict the correct aim at a plane on simple inputs like the observed speed angle to the target.
		All these inputs were fed in via dials turned gearing inside the Predictor to calculate range (from the change in angle and speed) and direction of motion generate the lead needed based on that calculation and "output" the result by moving a small mounted on the gun.
		The Predictor proved to be able to practically anything that flew in a straight and it was particularly effective against dive However it was also very complex including 1 000 precision parts and weighing over pounds even though much of it was aluminum.
	www.freeglossary.com /Kerrison_Director (1092 words)

	Wikipedia: Anti-aircraft
		The solution was automation, in the form of a mechanical computer, the Kerrison Predictor.
		Operators kept it pointed at the target, and the Predictor then calculated the proper aim point automatically and displayed it as a pointer mounted on the gun.
		The Kerrison was fairly simple, but it pointed the way to future generations which incorporated radar for ranging, and then tracking.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/a/an/anti_aircraft.html (1734 words)

	Skysweeper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This left an intermediate altitude at which a small gun could not be used because the range to the aircraft was too far, and a larger gun could not be used because the targets were moving too fast.
		During World War II the US Army filled this niche with the almost-universal Bofors 40 mm gun equipped with a US version of the Kerrison Predictor.
		But even by the end of the war the performance and accuracy of newer bombers demanded a much higher performance system that was able to attack targets at longer ranges.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skysweeper (579 words)

	Director M5
		During the first phase of the war in Europe, much of the phenomenal German success was directly attributable to the effective use of the dive bomber.
		The British had partially met the urgent need for new defensive weapons to combat the dive bomber by the development of the Kerrison Predictor, a complicated instrument which accurately controlled the fire of 37mm and 40mm anti-aircraft guns.
		The design of the Kerrison Computer was made available to the United States Government by the British and immediately Ordnance engineers undertook to adapt the design of the instrument for mass production by American methods and to American standards.
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	Encyclopedia: Kerrison Predictor
		American troops man an anti-aircraft gun near the Algerian coastline in 1943 Anti-aircraft, or air defense, is any method of combating military aircraft from the ground.
		The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces.
		Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kerrison-Predictor (1475 words)

	The Hammer of Hell
		Because the Coast Artillery Corps was not satisfied with the 37mm, in September 1940 General Marshall asked the British for the loan of four Bofors 40mm guns with their Kerrison Predictors for testing.
		The Kerrison Predictor provided accurate fire control to a range in excess of 1,500 meters, and the Bofors gun was reliable.
		In the fall of 1940, the Ordnance Department standardized the Kerrison Predictor for use with the 37mm gun.
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	Fire-control system - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The main difference between these systems and the ones on ships was size and speed.
		The Kerrison Predictor is one example of a system that was built to solve laying in "real time", simply by pointing the director at the target and then aiming the gun at a pointer it directed.
		It was also deliberately designed to be small and light, in order to allow it to be easily moved along with the guns it served.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Fire-control_system (1162 words)

	clinical predictors - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	Appetite Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kerrison Predictor The Kerrison Predictor was one of the first fully-automated anti-aircraft predictors, which would attempt to predict the correct aim at a plane based on simple inputs like the observed speed and angle to the target.
		Such devices had been used on ships for gunnery control for some time, but the electromechanical Kerrison was the first to be fast enough to be used in the demanding
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	CSIRO Education - Hobart, Tasmania - Educational Programs - Illusions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The sessions focus' on engineering errors and why they occurred from Tacoma Narrows to the Lockheed Electra.
		What is a Kerrison predictor and why have we got parts of one in Hobart???
		The pupils build at least one bridge to take home.
	www.csiro.au /hobcsirosec/Engineer.htm (84 words)

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