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Re: Astro Navigation on Pan American Flying Clippers
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Mar 26, 10:42 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Mar 26, 10:42 -0500
Apologizing for not having read this book, I wonder when the averaging bubble sextant was developed. Plath's "System Gago Coutinho" was released in 1926, but I assume there was no mechanical averaging method. When were sextants such as the Fairchild A10 developed? Fred On Mar 26, 2005, at 9:36 AM, Henry C. Halboth wrote: > There is a book entitled "Avigation", authored by Bradley Jones, and > published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, and Chapman & Hall, > Ltd., > London, in 1931, that covers air navigation methods of that era in > quite > some detail, and covers all the celestial methods then in use, both > surface and air. > > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:23:51 -0000 Zvi Doron> writes: >> I am looking for infrmation on the methods used by navigators on long >> haul >> civil flights in the 1930s and 40s. Several sources mention the Pan >> American >> Flying Clippers, to the extent that Pan Am staff trained US Army Air >> Cor. >> Navigators early in WWII. >> >> I wonder if there was a book written by any of their ex navigators >> describing instruments, methods and experience gained. I have a book >> called >> Most Probable Position by Monte Duane Wright that covers some of it >> but am >> looking for more detail. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >