[modeleng] Re: Drawings rqd

Well there is this: http://www.tecepe.com.br/nav/CDSextantProject.htm which 
while great fun and my kind of thing might not be quite what you had in 
mind.

I have found the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to be most helpful 
when I've sensible questions (rare I know) about martime issues. I'd have 
thought they might be worth a go. Fascinating as the museum is I'd think 
you'd be better raising your point by email than just turning up one Sunday 
afternoon hoping to get loads of detailed info.

The Science Museum in South Ken with whom I've had no dealings of this kind 
or the Museum of Science and Technology in Manchester might also be worth a 
go. I dealt with them many years ago offering some aviation artefacts which 
they didn't want but were prompt and civil in saying so. 'Course if you are 
DC or Munich you might find some more local sources of info.

Which reminds me if you or anyone wants a WW11 era RAF sextant as flown in 
Lancasters and the like I've got one I'd like to be rid of at a more than 
fair price. It includes some technical (patent) information about how the 
averaging system ,which allowed a not very experienced observer to make 
multiple sights over a couple of minutes and then gallop back to his desk 
and get an average elevation, works. I'm sorry but I've no WW11 history for 
it and I've been too lazy to take a sight with it (or any sextant for many 
years) so I don't know how accurate it is. Probably good enough to bomb 
Berlin from 18 000 feet tho' if the muse takes you.


>From: sehwuk@xxxxxxx
>Reply-To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [modeleng] Drawings rqd
>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:37:50 -0400
>
>Hi all
>
>       Does anybody know where, if any exist, the plans/drawings could be 
>found for a sextant - working if possible.
>
>Thanks. Steve
>
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