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Re: Ode to Celestial Navigation
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2017 Aug 4, 16:44 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2017 Aug 4, 16:44 -0700
When you were navigating your B-52 did you use the Polhemus computer?
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From: John Blake
Date: 2017 Aug 3, 14:42 -0700
I really enjoyed this poem. I was a navigator and radar operator in B52s from 1958-65 when we had to rely heavily on celestial navigation when crossing the Atlantic Ocean during our 24-hour airborne alert missions. One effect that you didn't work into your poem was Coriolis Effect, not too important on the ocean, but as much as 7 miles correction when travelling at 500 miles an hour.
