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System Gago Coutinho
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Feb 14, 12:20 -0800
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Feb 14, 12:20 -0800
I am attaching an excerpt from the book "Precision Astrolabe" that describes the Coutinho sextant and other sextants adapted to aviation use.
Also see the photos I previously uploaded showing his sextant and the airplane he use to fly across the Atlantic in 1922 at:
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