Wiktionary
n. (context aviation historical English) A bomber aircraft that dives directly at its target in order to provide greater accuracy for the bomb it drops.
WordNet
n. a bomber that releases its bombs during a steep dive toward the target
Wikipedia
A dive bomber is a bomber aircraft that dives directly at its targets.
Dive Bomber may also refer to:
- Dive Bomber (film)
- Dive Bomber (video game)
- Dive Bomber (ride), a type of amusement ride
Dive Bomber (a.k.a Beyond the Blue Sky) is a 1941 American aviation film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray. The film is notable for both its Technicolor photography of pre- World War II United States Navy aircraft and as a historical document of the U.S. in 1941, including the aircraft carrier , one of the best known World War II U.S. warships.
The film was the last of a collaboration between director Curtiz and actor Errol Flynn which began in 1935 and spanned 12 films. The cast also includes Fred MacMurray, on loan from Paramount Studios and Alexis Smith in her first credited screen performance. Flynn portrays a Harvard-educated doctor who is involved in heroic medical research on pilots, with MacMurray as the skeptical veteran aviator who gets swept up in the project. The plot is not historically accurate but, depicted in a near- documentary style, the film contains elements of true events that were involved in period aeromedical research, as well as real contemporary medical equipment.
The vivid cinematography prompted the tagline: The stunning spectacle of color rides with you into the heavens! Bert Glennon was nominated for an Oscar for Best Color Cinematography at the 14th Academy Awards in 1942. The movie is dedicated to the flight surgeons of the U.S. armed forces "in recognition of their heroic efforts to solve the immensely difficult problems of aviation medicine." The film was a big hit at the box office, rounding out as the 19th highest-grossing film of 1941.
Dive Bomber (known as Night Raider in Europe) is a computer game developed by Acme Animation in 1988 for the Atari ST, Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and IBM micro and compatible systems.
Usage examples of "dive bomber".
Hector Weiler was the park physician, a general surgeon trained at the University of Barcelona who spent most of his time putting Band-Aids on skinned knees and elbows, though there was a photo on his wall of the twin she'd delivered once upon a time after a pregnant woman had been foolish enough to ride the Dive Bomber there was now a very emphatic sign at the entrance warning against that.
Such attractions were not complementary, since watching the Dive Bomber didn't exactly heighten the appetite, and for adults, neither did riding it.
It consisted of a Japanese dive bomber, manned by a single aviator wearing a white scarf decorated with a red rising sun.