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Re: First South Atlantic aerial crossing by sextant!
From: David Pike
Date: 2025 Aug 3, 16:10 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2025 Aug 3, 16:10 -0700
Wolfgang Koberer you wrote " Here is a picture of a Zeppelin navigator using a sextant (probably Plath) and a Plath sextant "System Coutinho" in the Maritime Museum in Lisboa."
I frequently see the navigator in this photograph named online as Max Pruss Commander of Hindenburg on her last flight. I’m not so sure. It’s hard to tell, because the chap in the photograph is squinting, but most photographs of Pruss before he was scarred show him to be much slimmer than the chap in the photograph. What do others think? DaveP
