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Subject: Re: astrocompass still in use
From: Paul Hirose (paulhirose@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 01:00:03 EDT
Robert Eno wrote:
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> Do they still use periscopic sextants in the B-52?
I don't know. However, Air Force Form 4046, Celestial Precomputation,
is still active (carries a 1999 date). Anyone can download it over
the Internet, but unless you have the FormFlow program the file is
unintelligible.
During my years in the B-2 program we used a C-135 as an avionics
testbed. The drawer in the nav's desk had an Air Almanac and HO 249
tables. Don't know how often they were used. I put the periscopic
sextant up in the port and looked around with it a time or two.
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