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Re: The Sun does not stop for anyone
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2016 Dec 29, 00:19 -0800
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2016 Dec 29, 00:19 -0800
"The same GNC scale is used on the Polhemus computer, used by our Air Force for many years, which has graticules on the Lamberet Conformal projection covering all latitude bands. Plotting on the Polhemus is exactly like plotting on a GNC. "
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Attached is a photo showing a Polhemus computer on the desk in a B-52 navigation station. It is the large round disk under the square brown case containing the CP-300-U star finder and next to the small round MB-4 flight computer.
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