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Air navigation bubble sextants
From: Joshua Carty
Date: 2026 Mar 17, 06:57 -0700

How accurate were sights with bubble sextants aboard "best" military (USAF, other air forces?) aircraft at the end, before they were replaced by GPS? Do we know?? Was there any real way to test their accuracy in flight?

Josh

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