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Hi JF I would interested please post!
Mike Burkes
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>Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:48:56 +0100
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>My friend recently came across this list and thought I might be interested.
>I have browsed through some of the archives and am fascinated by the
>threads, although some of the postings are a bit beyond me! My interest is
>in traditional Air Navigation and one post from March 2005 grabbed my
>attention. Zvi Doron asked if there were any texts by navigators from the
>30 and 40's in relation to celestial navigation on the Pan American
>Clippers.
>In additon to the texts mentioned in the thread there is some good
>information in Captain Brock's Book 'Flying the Oceans'. Also Fred Noonan
>the first Chief navigator for PAA(1935/36) wrote a letter to Weems which is
>reproduced in the 1938 edition of Weem's Air Navigation. In it he decribes
>the method he used. He preferred to use Dreisonstok's Tables rather than
>Ageton or the Line of Position Book. He has also written on the feasibility
>of radio bearings comparing that with the accuracy of celestial in a paper
>I have if that is of interest to anyone.
>
>Many thanks for such a great List and looking forward to reading the
>postings and hopefully contributing!
>
>Jackie Ferrari
