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Re: astrocompass still in use
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Sep 29, 22:00 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Sep 29, 22:00 -0700
Robert Eno wrote: > > Do they still use periscopic sextants in the B-52? I don't know. However, Air Force Form 4046, Celestial Precomputation, is still active (carries a 1999 date). Anyone can download it over the Internet, but unless you have the FormFlow program the file is unintelligible. During my years in the B-2 program we used a C-135 as an avionics testbed. The drawer in the nav's desk had an Air Almanac and HO 249 tables. Don't know how often they were used. I put the periscopic sextant up in the port and looked around with it a time or two.
