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To: Retain Mike

I know. *sigh*

I was designing an aircraft nav system recently and was the only one on the team that knew what the LORAN database table was for. I felt real old about then.


11 posted on 01/29/2016 10:06:45 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad

How about “Omega”?


14 posted on 01/29/2016 10:13:45 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: CodeToad

I wonder what the Navy now uses as a backup system? It has to be something the does not depend on satellites. Even in days of sail and before accurate clocks, captains used dead-reckoning involving the log and estimating the wind as a backup for celestial fixes and noon sun lines.


15 posted on 01/29/2016 10:19:51 AM PST by Retain Mike
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