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    Re: Traditional navigation by slide rule
    From: Gary LaPook
    Date: 2016 Jan 11, 22:50 +0000
    For us navigators, the K&K 4080-3 has the trig scales marked in degrees and minutes rather the more common degrees and decimal degrees in most sliderules such as the K&E 4081-3.

    gl




    From: Stan K <NoReply_StanK@fer3.com>
    To: garylapook@pacbell.net
    Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 1:19 PM
    Subject: [NavList] Re: Traditional navigation by slide rule

    This site seems to confirm what Alan said, that Pickett started with magnesium then went to aluminum.

    http://sliderulemuseum.com/Pickett.htm

    Stan

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Gary LaPook <NoReply_LaPook@fer3.com>
    To: slk1000 <slk1000---.com>
    Sent: Mon, Jan 11, 2016 3:47 pm
    Subject: [NavList] Re: Traditional navigation by slide rule

    I believe that they are aluminum see:
    Gl


       
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