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Old October 25th 06, 11:49 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Macklin
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Default Solar storms spell trouble for GPS

There a post about the age of GPS, I just pointed out that
it was commercially available and used in 1986. Our news
servers had some problems, your post was what I had visible.
I don't recall seeing any thing I wrote that should have
insulted you.



"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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| On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:46:39 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote in
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| The aircraft had a dual King 660 FM system with GPS.
| STRONG Dick Rutan - Voyager Flight Fun Facts Voyager's
| flight was the first-ever, non-stop, unrefueled flight
| around the world. It took place between December 14 and
| December 23, 1986. ...
| www.dickrutan.com/page2.html - 5k - Cached -
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| 1986
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| I'm sorry, but I fail to see how that relates to anything
I wrote in
| the article to which you are following up.
|