Craig, There are some pilot/navigators still alive from my uncle's Group of which I'm an honorary member. I'll see if they can shed some light on this. I can imagine the situation where a trans-Pacific navigator would have looked at his watch, compass and RDF bearing and thought. "Where the heck am I? My fuel's low and I'm supposed to be there by now", then transmitting a lost message for distance and a bearing to the nearest island. I have a buddy who was a navigator in the 1960s on a C-124 while in a Loran C "dead zone", got "temporarily lost" trans-Pacific heading to SE Asia. When his unit up-graded to 130's, he navigated the plane into Cuban airspace and Migs scrambled. 73, Gil NN4CW _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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