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Re: Celestial Navigation
From: Jean-Philippe Planas
Date: 2013 Oct 19, 00:30 -0700
From: Jean-Philippe Planas
Date: 2013 Oct 19, 00:30 -0700
Leading airplanes (pathfinders) mostly used "radio range" to navigate and once obove the target they had to visually identify it.
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:06 AM, Gary LaPook <garylapook@pacbell.net> wrote:
Yes they used celestial navigation and, by the end of 1944 many LORAN - A stations had been established and that became another method for when the sky was obscured. They also used celestial navigation during the Viet Nam war to cross the Pacific and on bombing missions from Guam.
http://www.loran-history.info/Atafu/LoranChart-Atafu.jpg
http://www.loran-history.info/Gardner_Island/gardner.htm
http://www.loran-history.info/
gl
From: Michael Martin <fdny8251{at}aol.com>
To: garylapook{at}pacbell.net
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 2:22 PM
Subject: [NavList] Celestial Navigation
http://www.loran-history.info/Atafu/LoranChart-Atafu.jpg
http://www.loran-history.info/Gardner_Island/gardner.htm
http://www.loran-history.info/
gl
From: Michael Martin <fdny8251{at}aol.com>
To: garylapook{at}pacbell.net
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 2:22 PM
Subject: [NavList] Celestial Navigation
During WW2 my Father was a Bombadier Navigator and later a Pilot on a B-24 in the South Pacific. He often flew as lead plane on night missions. My question is, what sort of Navigational equipment would he have used to find the target. And would he have used Celestial Navigation at night to locate the Drop Area.
Thanks All and Clear Skies
Michael G. Martin FDNY(Retired)
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