Boresight -- not in OED

Mullins, Bill Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Tue Oct 26 04:59:54 UTC 2004


Apparently the OED has neither the noun or verb forms of "boresight".

Word or phrase: boresighting
Reference: _Naval Avaition News_, Jan 1947, "Technically Speaking" col. 1 p
27; online at:
http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backissues/1940s/1947/jan47.pdf

Category: New-word
Details:
Quotation------------

Night Boresight Idea Saves Time

NAS JACKSONVILLE -- A system of boresighting gunnery planes at night to
obviate tying them up during daytime flight operations has been developed by
and put in operation by VSB (ATU) #1.



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