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From: Chuck Varney
Date: 2025 Oct 29, 21:15 -0700
Kevin Coulombe, you wrote “Checked a 1960 copy of AIR NAVIGATION and found good information about the A10-A, A-14, A-15, D-2 PERISCOPE, MA-1 and MA-2. No hint of the AQU. Annoyingly this is an AIR FORCE only publication. I wonder if there is an equivalent USN publication of the same era.”
To which, David Pike responded (accurately) "I'm sure there's a USN equivalent to Air Navigation, but I'm not sure it'll help you."
I have a .PDF copy of Air Navigation H.O. Pub. No. 216, published in 1963 by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office. The content of Chapter XXI Sextant has three sections covering types of sextants: bubble sextant, periscopic sextant, and marine sextant. These sections show, respectively, a Mark 5 bubble sextant, illustrations of a periscopic sextant provided by Kollsman Instrument Corp., and a U.S. Navy MK II marine sextant. There is no mention of the AQU-1/A.
(I downloaded my .PDF copy five years ago and see that it's still accessible at:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Air_Navigation.html?id=esh0f3TmIekC )
Chuck V
