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    Re: Charles Lindbergh, dead reckoning and Amelia Earhart
    From: Gary LaPook
    Date: 2015 Jan 26, 22:34 -0800

    Lindbergh used dead reckoning  and made landfall on the coast of Ireland within just a few miles of his planed landfall. This was due to luck. Lindbergh flew across a low pressure area and the counterclockwise flow blew him off course to the right and then back on to course but he didn't know about this circulation so it was just luck. From that landfall it was pretty easy to find France and the Seine and follow it to Paris. On latter flight the Lindberghs (his wife handling the sextant) did use celestial navigation on oceanic flights. 

     

    Earhart's navigator, Fred Noonan, took 14 celestial observations on the first leg from Oakland to Hawaii see attached chart and he also took 3 sunlines on the crossing from Natal to Dakar, attached.

    See:

    https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/amelia-earhart-s-flight-basic-facts

     

    https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/navigation-to-howland-island

     

    https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/discussions/navigation-to-dakar

     

    https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/home

     

    gl

     


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