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Air navigation 1950s-1980s
From: Joshua Carty
Date: 2026 Aug 17, 09:23 -0700
From: Joshua Carty
Date: 2026 Aug 17, 09:23 -0700
Are there any professional air navigators here? Military air navigators? David Pike has menttioned being an RAF navigator. Great information! Caould any of you tell me what method of sight reduction you used? Were the standard tables in the final few decades of celestial in the air the same as the HO 249 tables that I have read about?
What sorts of bubble sextants are still available in good (refurbishd?) condition? A friend recently showed me one with a "Celestaire" tag on it. Is that a specific model?
Josh
