Riley Estel Scott
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Riley Estel Scott was an American aero inventor noteworthy for developing a bombsight. Formerly he had been an artillery officer.
Scott tested his bombsight, with Lieutenant Thomas De Witte Milling, at the Army's aeronautical testing ground at College Park on 9 October 1911. The tests showed high accuracy but the US Army declined to sponsor further development. Scott went to Paris and entered the Aéro-cible Michelin contest. He won a $27,500 prize from Michelin and sold the bombsight to the French government.[1]
This person had 0 publications and 3 patents in this database.
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Riley Estel Scott
- Patent US-1910-991378 (English title: Means for dropping projectiles from aircraft, Filing date: 1910-05-04)
- Patent FR-1911-429878 (English title: Apparatus for releasing or launching explosive projectiles from an aerostat or other aerial machine, Filing date: 1911-05-06)
- Patent FR-1912-444692 (English title: device for maintaining a telescope in a vertical line of aiming on a graduated sector carried by a moving vehicle, such as an aeroplane or other aircraft, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1911-429878, Filing date: 1912-06-06)
Scott was admitted as a US Army cadet in 1900 from WV[2] and was promoted in the army in 1904.[3]
- He's got sources on Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Riley_Estel_Scott
- Publication by him: Can the Panama Canal be destroyed from the air?, Sunset magazine -- aero-related
- Publication about him (apparently, though his name is listed as Riley A. Scott): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Morning_Press/1914/July/11/Editor_and_aviator_are_arrested_for_disclosing_military_secrets -- he disclosed secrets?!
References
- ↑ Hallion, 2003, pp. 300–302. "Not being as penurious or shortsighted as Scott's countrymen, the French government promptly bought his bombsight, and, indeed, American mercenary pilot Bert Hall flew for the Bulgarians with a version of the Scott sight during the Balkan War of 1912."
- ↑ List of Cadets Admitted Into the United States Military Academy, ...
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=zV0ki9nFO4YC&lpg=PA139&ots=FW-zQb5T-C&dq=Riley%20Estel%20Scott&pg=PA139#v=onepage&q=Riley%20Estel%20Scott&f=false
| Names | Riley Estel Scott |
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| Countries | US |
| Locations | College Park |
| Occupations | artillery officer |
| Tech areas | instruments |
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| Affiliations | U.S. Army, Michelin prize |
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