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Old 10-02-2009 | 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by fdx727pilot
Alright. Tony C comes through with the real facts. I've been itching to post this stuff, but thought I ought to read through the rest of the thread to see if someone had the real story. While I don't know what super early production 135s had in the way of extra windows, after 8 years and over 4000 hours on various 135 and E-3 models, Tony has his facts straight on the eyebrow windows and sextant port. And like others have mentioned, I've flown several 727s that had sextant ports, usually -100 models, built before omega and ins were available.
Good luck convincing the I-phone generation (GPS on their phones) that you could actually navigate by observing celestial objects.

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