Started by Moira Gallagher (@moira_at_sea) ·
navigators used to shoot the stars through a bubble in the roof of the plane
Saw a photo of a B-29 with a little glass dome on top and had to know what it was for. Ended up back at Harrison's clocks, as one does.
6 sources · 49 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “celestial navigation in aircraft”
- Ended at
- Longitude rewards
The Trail
- “celestial navigation in aircraft” (google.com)
- Celestial navigation (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sextant (en.wikipedia.org)
- Air navigation (en.wikipedia.org)
a whole crew position that just stopped existing
- Marine chronometer (en.wikipedia.org)
- Longitude rewards (en.wikipedia.org)
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