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Re: jet fighter celestial nav
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2006 Apr 13, 17:22 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2006 Apr 13, 17:22 -0700
Paul Hirose wrote: > U.S. Air Force Manual 51-40, "Air Navigation" (1955 edition), which I > got on eBay, has a chapter on fighter plane celestial navigation. > > I wonder how they corrected for refraction through the canopy. The > manual doesn't say. Jet aircraft navigation is quite a bit coarser than ship navigation. By the time a pilot figured out where he was using celestial, he wasn't there any more. So I suspect being a mile or two off due to refraction was entirely irrelevant. Lu Abel
