Farnsworth also did development on TV monitoring of falling bombs. A television camera and transmitter were mounted in an empty bomb casing and a television receiver was mounted in the rear of a B-25 test aircraft. The inert bomb with the transmitter inside and the camera in the nose was dropped after the normal bomb load. The camera could then give a real-time view of where the bombs landed. American strategic bombing was not nearly as accurate as its advocates proclaimed during World War Two and since that time. In many cases, if American B-17s and B-24s were to hit the right city, let alone the factory inside it, they were lucky. More than once, American aircraft accidently bombed Switzerland, a neutral country.
While the Farnsworth monitoring system did not help guide the bombs to the proper target, it did attempt to monitor where they landed. In June 1944, tests were made on the system at Tonopah Army Air Force Base in Nevada, where it was successfully able to monitor the landing locations of the bombs. There is no evidence it was put into production.
Inside the aft section of the B-25, an operator could monitor the falling of the bombs on this TV monitor.
