Learning Center Our Enshrinees

Carl Lukas Norden

• Patented control systems for launching aerial torpedoes from ships.
• Designed robot flying bombs, radio-controlled target planes, catapults, and arresting gear used on aircraft carriers.
• Began work in 1921 on an instrument which could drop bombs from an aircraft and hit targets on land and sea, and in 1928 developed a bomb-timing device.
• Developed a gyrostabilized automatic pilot to combat pilot’s problems maintaining constant airspeed and altitude.
• Developed the Norden bombsight that was used during World War II, the Korean War, and for photo reconnaissance missions during the Cold War.