Mxsmanic wrote:
Walt writes:

That wasn't my point. I thought you were interested in navigation. Try
reading Dava Sobel's _Longitude_. Fascinating read if you're really
interested in navigation, whether 300 years ago or present time.

I did read it, but it talked too much about politics and other
matters, and not enough about technical stuff.

Ignore the political aspects of the book, although they're pretty
interesting in their own right. Just take the way they tried to figure
out a longitude fix 300 years ago and look at how it's done now.

Nice putdown.

How so? I was alluding to the fact that some things in aviation have
not changed.

The current B-52 is what, the H model? It's changed. The current Walt
model is still the A model, although there have been a number of dot
releases over the years.


I gave you some tantalizing clues about navigation. Pursue them or
ignore them. Up to you.

At the moment I don't have time to investigate them, but I'll keep
them under consideration.

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