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Re: what's that
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2007 Feb 17, 10:26 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2007 Feb 17, 10:26 -0500
Peter Ifland, of course, is an authoritative source. However, this web page has a few errors regarding post-World War II navigation. As Paul Hirose has pointed out, a number of automated sextants were developed for the U.S. Air Force to bring inertial navigation instruments back to "zero," from which they tended to wander. Likewise, the U.S. Navy has automated sextants, deployed fleet wide if I am not mistaken. Also, significant parts of space navigation have been done with automated sextants. Fred On Feb 17, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Phil wrote: > > Hello, > I think it is a sextant for balloonists. See here : > http://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb00/H61if_2.htm > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
