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The Navigator's Newsletter
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2004 Dec 8, 08:40 -0400
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2004 Dec 8, 08:40 -0400
I just got my first two copies of The Navigator's Newsletter (Foundation for the Promotion of the Art of Navigation http://home.comcast.net/~navigate1/navigate1.html). Fascinating stuff. Of course I am starting out at Issues 82 and 83, so obviously I've missed a great deal (understatement). However they have complete sets of back issues, so I ordered one. There are references to items like a WWII USN training film on Celestial Navigation by Magic Lamp Productions..."in less than an hour it covers the theory and then goes on to demonstrate the plotting of an LOP. After showing it, we can get right down to actually working problems." The Institute of Navigation is planning to establish a virtual museum of navigational instruments. A map of voyages by a family cruiser, Fiona: 185,000 miles! -- and some stories from their cruises (Sigh). Reprint of Journal of Institute of Navigation 1970's paper about a graphical method for interpolating altitude for latitude and LHA using 229. A story from an F4 pilot about a flight over Laos in 1972. His backseater, and old-school celestial navigator, observed stars by eye as they refueled in various places, as well as marking their lat/long electronically. Later they compared his positions -- he was only 3-5 nm off! (He later went MIA that same year). Reference to a 50-page document by Roger Jones called, "Celestial Navigation -- An Armchair Perspective". A contribution from our own George Huxtable, commenting on Dilemmas in Multiple Sight Position Solutions. An item by Bruce Stark about using a tin clock and a lunar observation. Great stuff. Jim Thompson jim2@jimthompson.net www.jimthompson.net -------------------- Outgoing email scanned by Norton Antivirus
