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Re: First Posting
From: Mike Burkes
Date: 2005 Aug 6, 14:59 -0700
From: Mike Burkes
Date: 2005 Aug 6, 14:59 -0700
Hi JF I would interested please post! Mike Burkes >From: jferrari>Reply-To: Navigation Mailing List >To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM >Subject: First Posting >Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:48:56 +0100 > >My friend recently came across this list and thought I might be interested. >I have browsed through some of the archives and am fascinated by the >threads, although some of the postings are a bit beyond me! My interest is >in traditional Air Navigation and one post from March 2005 grabbed my >attention. Zvi Doron asked if there were any texts by navigators from the >30 and 40's in relation to celestial navigation on the Pan American >Clippers. >In additon to the texts mentioned in the thread there is some good >information in Captain Brock's Book 'Flying the Oceans'. Also Fred Noonan >the first Chief navigator for PAA(1935/36) wrote a letter to Weems which is >reproduced in the 1938 edition of Weem's Air Navigation. In it he decribes >the method he used. He preferred to use Dreisonstok's Tables rather than >Ageton or the Line of Position Book. He has also written on the feasibility >of radio bearings comparing that with the accuracy of celestial in a paper >I have if that is of interest to anyone. > >Many thanks for such a great List and looking forward to reading the >postings and hopefully contributing! > >Jackie Ferrari