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Re: Kollsman periscopic sextant mount
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2015 Jan 2, 17:09 -0800
From: Mike Trowbridge <NoReply_Trowbridge@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 10:01 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Kollsman periscopic sextant mount
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2015 Jan 2, 17:09 -0800
After watching ebay for a long time I finally found a sextant complete with mount and I snapped it up. I think it was about $200 when the sextants alone were going for about $50. So, keep watching ebay is all I can suggest.
Or, you can visit the Reagan Library in Simi Valley California where Air Force One is located. Take a tour and, when nobody is looking unbolt the sextant mount from the top of the cockpit and run, run, run!
gl
From: Mike Trowbridge <NoReply_Trowbridge@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 10:01 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Kollsman periscopic sextant mount
I was a RC 135 navigator in Cold War 1980's and have purchased a sextant on eBay (readily available) but I cannot find the mount or power cords like you have anywhere. I was thinking of setting up a stationary ground level mounting like you did with power cord etc.
Any seller resource you could refer me to for the mount and power cord, etc to make a sextant work?
Thanks,
Major Mike Trowbridge, USAF Retired
