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I am writing a thesis on the development of Norwegian air power thinking of the inter-war period, and came across this "Cuzaux-effect" in an article written in 1939. In short, it is the side ways deviation of a projectile trajectory when fired from a weapon in motion. In the late 1930's, according to the article, it was discovered that this effect became so strong when a the bomber achieved the speed of 320 km/t and over, that its defensive armaments would have great difficulties when trying to hit an attacking fighter which came in with an angle larger than 30 degrees to the bomber's own course. This was supposed to be one of the major blows to the so-called bomber-paradigm, formulated among others by British politician Stanley Baldwin in his words the bomber will always get through (1932). According to this, the speed, climbing rate and operational ceiling of bomber relative to fighter preformance were developing in favor of the former. Combined with heavy defensive weaponry, the bomber would be virtually invulnerable to fighter attack. In the Spanish civil war, it was discovered that even slower but more maneuverable biplanes were able to down faster bombers, and even fighters. My question is therefor if any list member has any further references on the origins of the description of this effect, as in who was Cuzaux and when did he formulate his theorem. Frode Lindgjerdet, Norway Frode Lindgjerdet <Fr-Lind@Online.No>
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