bilbobaggins
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The \'Which\' Guide to Sextants....
Some of us on here seem to collect tired old boats; other, tired old GPS plotters. Then there are those with a complete range of strange anchors.... It rather looks as if I'm becoming something of a sextant geek, to add to my trubbles.
A couple of days after I got involved in BigNick's <span style="color:blue"> Use of a Sextant #1487362 - 19/06/2007 13:21 </span> thread ( and SBS Nigel? ), I had an email from the RIN regarding some WW2 aircraft bubble sextants that had been cluttering a cupboard for, oh, 'since Pontius was a pilot'.
'Me! Me! Me!' was the response, and I'm now the bemused and confused guardian of a Mk9 Aircraft Bubble Sextant, to add to the other 3 or 4 astro-thingies and brass telescopes that proudly gather 'oose-bunnies' on my shelf year after year.
It seems this instrument is in good working order - it has a bubble, the clockwork 'averager' device works, the controls are effective, the carrying box is fine - and although it dates from 1941 ( as does the old airforce nav who gave it to me ), it is still capable of doing a job of sorts.
The question is - does anyone out there have an old flying boat on a mooring somewhere, that they no longer need? Just to complete the collection......
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Some of us on here seem to collect tired old boats; other, tired old GPS plotters. Then there are those with a complete range of strange anchors.... It rather looks as if I'm becoming something of a sextant geek, to add to my trubbles.
A couple of days after I got involved in BigNick's <span style="color:blue"> Use of a Sextant #1487362 - 19/06/2007 13:21 </span> thread ( and SBS Nigel? ), I had an email from the RIN regarding some WW2 aircraft bubble sextants that had been cluttering a cupboard for, oh, 'since Pontius was a pilot'.
'Me! Me! Me!' was the response, and I'm now the bemused and confused guardian of a Mk9 Aircraft Bubble Sextant, to add to the other 3 or 4 astro-thingies and brass telescopes that proudly gather 'oose-bunnies' on my shelf year after year.
It seems this instrument is in good working order - it has a bubble, the clockwork 'averager' device works, the controls are effective, the carrying box is fine - and although it dates from 1941 ( as does the old airforce nav who gave it to me ), it is still capable of doing a job of sorts.
The question is - does anyone out there have an old flying boat on a mooring somewhere, that they no longer need? Just to complete the collection......
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