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    Re: Bygrave and Chichester
    From: Christian Scheele
    Date: 2009 Aug 3, 15:22 +0200

     I recommend this
    > book, Seaplane Solo, to everybody and I can email a copy to anyone who
    > is interested.
    
    I would much appreciate a copy, Gary.
    
    I am not starting a new thread because the subject is related to your
    commentary on the difficulties of making celestial observations. Could you
    give me a reference to anything on the attempts by Byrd and Weems to use the
    single-body fix  method by taking sun shots through the open hatch of their
    seaplane?
    
    Christian Scheele
    
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Gary LaPook" 
    To: 
    Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 3:59 AM
    Subject: [NavList 9281] Bygrave and Chichester
    
    
    >
    > My interest in the Bygrave was triggered by my reading Sir Francis
    > Chichester's account of flying a Moth, open cockpit single engine
    > airplane across the Tasman Sea in 1931 doing celnav on the way to find
    > two tiny islands where he could refuel, each leg about 500 nautical
    > miles. Today, at Headcorn Aerodrome in England, I had the opportunity to
    > fly the same type of aircraft and my admiration for Chichester increased
    > ten fold. It is a very light aircraft so it is bounced around a lot my
    > even the lightest turbulence. The controls are very sensitive,
    > especially in pitch, so it takes a lot of concentration to keep the
    > plane flying straight and level. It is also very noisy and the wind
    > blows vigorously through the cockpit. I don't know how Chichester
    > managed to do it, flying the plane, shooting sun lines with  a marine
    > sextant, doing the computations with the Bygrave (holding it
    > horizontally so it didn't get blown out of the cockpit), estimating
    > drift angle, and plotting the LOPs and the drift lines. I recommend this
    > book, Seaplane Solo, to everybody and I can email a copy to anyone who
    > is interested.
    >
    > gl
    >
    >
    > >
    
    
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