Originally Posted by
Ftrooppilot
The number of pilots who could pick up a sextant and shoot / plot a moon or sun LOP or three star fix are probably down to 1/10th of 1%. Those are probably sailors who cruised before GPS was invented.
The moon, the sun, orion, the ultimate GPS!
It worked for Columbus, right?
"Look...INDIANS!"
Damned those clouds!!
I'm reading a very good book about Curtis Lemay right now, crazy how they were using celestial to find ships on the sea, from the air, prior to WW2,...but he did it!