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    Re: Sextant used on Graf Zeppelin
    From: Howard G
    Date: 2022 Jul 9, 18:52 -0700

    Hi Ron

    Totally agree - being left-handed can be a curse at times - but most Lefties are by necessity partially ambidexterous (trying doing precision veterinary surgery with a right handed set of needle holders - disaster - a nighmare - so we always carry our own already sterilised)

    Aeronautical sextants - the RAF Mark IX was always held in the left hand leaving the controls to be manipulated with the Right hand - but the good thing about aeronautical sextants is you either put them in a mount (kollsman) or hand them from a hook. 

    And to add to the business of taking 3 star shots - you had to turn on night lighting - red and had to go back to your nav table and write down the reading for the 1st and 2nd shot without killing your night vision.

    A dim memory but we got good at it.

    Howard G

       
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