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Re: Zeppelin sextants and altitude corrections
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Nov 2, 18:19 -0800
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Nov 2, 18:19 -0800
Here is a guide to navigation of airships in American English:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1933/august/navigation-rigid-airships
It gives a pretty clear description of practices. Both standard marine and bubble sextants are carried. The standard marine sextant is used when horizon is clear, and the ship may go to a lower altitude to achive this.
Alex.
