Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation: “After All, You Can’t Hack a Sextant”

crytpogon.com ^ | October 14th, 2015 | Capital Gazette

[editor-surveyor]

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Did you mean “Sexting” :o)
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[central_va]

They use an artificial horizon which is a barrel sawed in half filled with water. You have to sit in the middle, get wet.

A modern sextant has an attachment.

An artificial horizon is useful when the horizon is invisible, as occurs in fog, on moonless nights, in a calm, when sighting through a window or on land surrounded by trees or buildings. Professional sextants can mount an artificial horizon in place of the horizon-mirror assembly. An artificial horizon is usually a mirror that views a fluid-filled tube with a bubble.

[Bull Snipe]

If I remember correctly the Navy planes were P-3s used for ASW patrols against the Reds in the 70s through the 90s

[OwenKellogg]

There are many references available by googling “latitude by Polaris”.

http://columbuslandfall.com/ccnav/cn.shtml

http://www.navworld.com/navcerebrations/columbus.htm

[bert]

Thanks you guys......

I have some reading to do before transmitting to my friend

[R. Scott]

Army vessels only have three departments, deck (deck apes) they are seamen, signalmen, quartermasters and navigation officers. Engine (snipes) are enginemen, electricians, electronic technicians etc. The third department is the stewards (cooks).
This is the reason Army crews are much smaller than Navy. An example would be the 143’ ocean tugs we had back in the 60s, we had a crew of 36. The Navy had a crew of over 50 on identical tugs.

[Hawthorn]

>> Did you ever learn the whole Sphore? <<

Tried, but failed!

And FWIW, I could copy Morse by ear at about 15 wpm with pen/pencil and paper (plus, a little faster with a typewriter), but never became proficient decoding via signal light or flag.

[minnesota_bound]

Can you check what Ron White arrest record says?
It is in morse code....

Ron White: I got thrown out of a bar in New York City
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330069/quotes

Video with the morse code starting at 3:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUaSTSKFZc

[Hawthorn]

>> It is in morse code <<

Just in case you’re asking a serious question, I’m sorry to report that it’s Morse about as much as my name is Donald Trump.

[higgmeister]

Exactly right! They even had a weekly flight to Torrejón to bring movies for the AFRTS station.

Those guys were in the real war and it didn't feel very cold to them.

[ought-six]

I did my Morse training at Keesler and my crypto at Goodfellow.

[higgmeister]

I always admired you guys for having to take down groups of figures and characters with no context to tell if you were getting it right or not. Doubly so if you got sent to Turkey to do it. That is why I got out after six, facing a certain remote at Diyarbakır.

[ought-six]

I was at Karamursel, Turkey.