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>(However, I imagine that this recommendation has to be modified
>for a navigator of a strategic bomber flying at 600 knots.
>I don't know much about the aerial navigation, but I suppose
>it had to be done by cell nav before GPS era, and if you are over an
>ocean).
As I understand it, there's an added problem in a plane because the plane
tends to roll causing the gravity
vector to oscillate. Many of the WW2 era aviation sextants have mechanical
averaging devices to compensate
for this; mine has a 1 minute averager. One minute at 300 miles per hour =
5 miles.
