I believe he's referring to the Fairchild A-10A bubble sextant,
originally produced in the 1940s. I used a periscopic sextant in the
KC-135, an improvement over the hand-held, or dome-mounted bubble
sextant, but I never used any sextant in the Fairchild Republic A-10A
"Warthog" I subsequently flew. Interesting coincidence with
nomenclature. Using a sextant in my single-seat Warthog would have been
a trick! I confess to having drooled over Loran C while serving as a
nav in SAC. When I eventually installed Loran C in my personal Mooney
aircraft, I was quite pleased with its performance, but there's no
question that GPS has eclipsed Loran in many ways for global
navigation. Strangely enough, the only Loran receiver I saw
operationally in the USAF was Loran A, in the KC-135Q, to improve
navigation for rendezvous with the SR-71. It was quite a dinosaur, even
in the '70s.
Matt Osborn wrote:
A hog driver and time-nut; heck of a combination. I kept my feet on
the ground back in the '60s. but always had my spirits lifted when
Spooky showed up.
Heard you guys flew the wings off those planes. Boeing is replacing
all 242 wing sets for another 20 years of service.
Thanks for your service, Peter.
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:29:39 -0800, Peter Putnam
<[email protected]> wrote:
My A-10 aircraft
-- kc0ukk at msosborn dot com
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