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From: Wolfgang Köberer
Date: 2025 Aug 2, 11:59 -0700
If you'd like to know more about the navigation on the flight of Coutinho and Cabral:
Canas, António Costa, Métodos de navegção usados nas primeiras travessias aéreas oceânicas. In: Domingues, Francisco Contente and S.S. Silva (Eds.), Navegação no Atlântico: XVIII Reunião Internacional de História da Náutica / Atlantic Navigation: XVIII International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science, Ponta Delgada 2019, 349 - 362 (alas, only in Portuguese).
Canas, António Costa, Magda Ramires Marabujo and Teresa Sous, Coutinho's Method for the Altitude. In: Journal of Navigation, Vol. 73 - Issue 4 (July 2020), 861 - 873.
Canas, António Costa, Magda Ramires Marabujo and Teresa Sous, O corretor de rumos de Gago Coutinho e Sacadura Cabral. In.: Boletim Sociedade Matemática Portuguesa, Núm. 78 (Dezembro 2020), 61 - 92. (In Portuguese)
Pereira, José Manuel Malhão, Gago Coutinho a Navegação Aérea e a Navegação Marítima. Contribuição para o seu Estudo. Lisboa 2020 (in Portuguese).
I am adding pictures of the instruments used during the flight in the Maritime Museum Lisboa.
Enjoy
Wolfgang
