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Re: Kollsman periscopic sextant mount AFNOA has 5 models of D-1
From: Ronald P Barrett
Date: 2010 Oct 27, 08:58 -0700
From: Ronald P Barrett
Date: 2010 Oct 27, 08:58 -0700
Gary, Great work on D-1 sextant mount. AFNOA ( www.afnoa.org ) the USAF Navigators Observers Association just gave an entire rig like yours, made of pipe with D-1 mount, with good D-1, to the Heritage Hall of the USAF/AETC Squadron at Pensacola... to remind the new CSOs who wear nav wings but never navigate.... where they came form! Chuckle. The young troops were quite puzzled as to how to look through a sextant. Wonderful fun. Interestingly here in AFNOA we have over the years sought and obtained Navigator items to parcel out to the flight museums. In the process I have seen and photo recorded that there were at least five different models of the venerable Kollsman D-1 sextant. I will get the photos off to you, going from the MA-1& MA-2 (Kollsman and held precedents) to the B-52 model that the EWO shot (as he was on the upper deck,,,, not the real navigator(s) who was/were down in the black hole) which had "NO-on-the-sextant-numerical-read-out.... the read out appeared on the MD-1 Display Panel converted to LAT LONG, Star Data, Kollsmans Manf Part Number A2157C 00 004. At this point the nav did not have to compute LOPs as such. However the transport navs were still doing traditional celestial and plotting away! Side note:In the period of the two Hound Dog GAM days (1960s), the astro tracker on the Dogs were also were integrated into the MD-1 navigation system. Bob Harder the author of "BOMBING FROM THE BLACK HOLE", has done nav history a great favor in producing his book. Now if we can get more navs to write,,, there are surely more great stories out there. Ron Barrett, AFNOA President & Historian, 305-797-0745 --- On Wed, 10/27/10, Gary LaPook <glapook@pacbell.net> wrote:
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