[time-nuts] Loran C sounds

[Robert Berg]

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
> <pico.2008 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> My A-10 aircraft 
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>
> -- kc0ukk at msosborn dot com
>