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Which reminds me even more amazing story once told on this list,
about a US pilot in Korean war, who could determine
his coordinates with a reasonable precision just by looking at the stars
and at his chronometer,
without a sextant:-)
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Ken Muldrew wrote:
> Someone already mentioned the John Wayne movie
> where he takes a sighting of the sun, looks at the sextant scale, and
> promptly announces the latitude and longitude of the fix. The artillerists
> could naturally perform similar feats of mental arithmetic! ;-)
