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Re: Kollsman sextant
From: Ronald P Barrett
Date: 2009 Sep 29, 06:21 -0700
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From: Ronald P Barrett
Date: 2009 Sep 29, 06:21 -0700
The MA-1 Kollsman body as shown in the eBay pictures has the clock (aftbody) removed and the prism optics missing from the aft top side. The "sky-hook is also missing(which one would use in an astrodome configured plane in the 50-s when this type of sextant was in use). So it appears to be a sextant body used for some sort of experimental purpose. Maybe some sort of bench test tool? Only partial optics and no timer/averager; one wonders. Interesting. Ron Barrett, AFNOA (www.afnoa.org) Historian --- On Tue, 9/29/09, glapook@pacbell.net <glapook@pacbell.net> wrote:
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