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Re: Navigation gathering: Mystic, Spring 2010
From: Ronald P Barrett
Date: 2009 Aug 15, 12:26 -0700
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From: Ronald P Barrett
Date: 2009 Aug 15, 12:26 -0700
| Frank, In the realm of navigator meetings, the Air Force Navigators Observers Association AFNOA (www.afnoa.org) is having an "ALL Navs - ALL Types" of flight navigators' Reunion October 14-15-16, 2009. This Reunion will be at Fairborn - Dayton Ohio. Host hotel is the Fairborn Holiday Inn, right next to the National Museum of the USAF, on Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. No special permission is needed to get in to the AF Museum as the Museum entry if free to all. We will have a big dinner Friday night, 16 Oct, inside the Museum under the noses of the planes. We bring a large collection of flight sextants to this reunion for all to get their hands on, plus manuals, plus comp sheets ect. Come if you can... but you must make prior arrangements with AFNOA. Our Honored Guest will be Col. Ed Whitcomb USAF Ret, who authored, ON CELESTIAL WINGS, the story of the real navs who flew right into the Japanese attacks that were the start of WWII. I personally know Ed and at 91 he is still a sharp nav persona. Ed sailed sailed solo across the Atlantic in the 60's navigating via marine sextant. Ed was in PanAM Charlie Lunn's class at Coral Gables, Florida in 1940/41. The AF's very first flight navigators' class. The Brits had their schoo up and running a year earlier. If any of your folks would be interested in attending, please contact AFNOA's POC there at Fairboorn, Ohio. A number of the planes will have their Navigator's positions opened andbe on exhibit for the Reunion. POC is Col. Suazo Sostenes, USAF Ret. ssuaz61@aol.com or me the Flight Navigator's Historian for the AF, ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com Lunn's grandson is also slated to be there. I do the Amelia Eahart Nav Fred Noonan reanactments for the Kansas City Airline History Museum too. See www.airlinehistorymuseum.com That is the only place where there is a comprehensive flight navigator's exhibit that contains rare early flight sextants. Other USAF nav history, with pictures, is on www.usaf-nav-history.com I really enjoy seeing the nav-comm going across your site. Ron Barrett, USAF NavBomb Ret and AF Nav Historian www.ronbarrett.com 305-797-0745 (I use to live and sail in Key West) --- On Sat, 8/15/09, frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.com <frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.com> wrote:
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