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From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2013 Mar 6, 15:01 -0600
This morning I took a pilot friend and we went flying to take a series of sun' sights and see the results. The plane, a Boeing Stearman, is an open cockpit biplane of the late 30's, I sat in the front cockpit which is a bit more spacious and allows me to be able to get shots looking on one side thus clearing the upper wing.
The session was rough one in terms of just taking a series of sights, mathematically averaging them, the same for the time, start of series UT and end of series UT, averaged. Few calculation on a knee board piece of paper to get a single LOP. Not much use but later the data have been verified against the USNO results for same position and time. Here are results:
Ho 46 09.4' against a Hc 46 15.8' with an intercept of 6.3'A.
bubble octant A-12 Link, bubble size 2.5 sun' dia.,pressure altitude 5,000 feet, speed 75 Knots and OAT 16C. Pos. Lat 24 28.2'N; Lon 054 22.8'E.
The old Links still works.....
Paolo----------------------------------------------------------------
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