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Michael,
Thank you for your message.
I am trying to imagine how a "mechanical averaging"
device could possibly work, on what principle.
Can this be explained in few lines?
Alex.
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Michael Dorl wrote:
> >
> >(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.
>
