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    Re: Two body Sandwich Fix Proforma
    From: Gary LaPook
    Date: 2014 Nov 16, 18:20 -0800
    I don't have a picture taken through my A-7 but I do have one shot through my Kollsman periscopic sextant, see:



    From: David Pike <NoReply_DavidPike@fer3.com>
    To: garylapook@pacbell.net
    Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 2:06 PM
    Subject: [NavList] Re: Two body Sandwich Fix Proforma

     
    Thanks Gary.  I’ve just skimmed through these so far.  I’ll look at them in detail later.  I’d always wondered which sextant Fred Noonan used.  The A7 looks a quality bit of kit.  Was it from his airline days? The fact that it used a bubble rather hits on the head one suggestion I heard a few years ago that he forgot to apply dip.  Did you by any chance attempt to take a photo though the eyepiece? I suppose without a mounting you’d need four hands.  It is possible.  Attached is a shot through the eyepiece of an ex RAF Smiths Pendulous Reference Sextant Mk2B perched on top of a set of steps, and a terrible shot through a terribly dirty RAF Bubble Mk9.  The smudge on the right is the shadow of the hanger.
     
    Steady for Astro. Dave
     


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