A C-54:
The C-54 was the airplane that made the Berlin Airlift possible.
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Is that a sextant dome above the cockpit fore celestial nav? I once bought a AF surplus sextant when I wuz a teenager......
ReplyDeleteIt is, indeed.
ReplyDeleteDo you still have the bubble sextant?
To amplify, the Navy published two sets of sight reduction tables, HO 229 and HO 249. -229 was for ships and -249 was for aircraft. A lot of open-ocean navigators used -249 because it was quicker and if you were off by a mile or two, nobody gave a shit.
DeleteCM is correct. We were still using HO 249 tables in the early 90s when I retired. Also, #1 needs a rebuild. Throwing way too much oil!
ReplyDeleteLordy, that was 60 years ago and more in my childhood home...long gone. I went to summer camp in ME with a 50' gaff rigged schooner...kids did everything including coastal piloting with a pelorus, chart and parallel rules. I even built a chip log with knots in the line....
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see one I'm reminded of Ernie Gann's book Fate is the Hunter. Compared to the C-87, he thought these handled like fighters. The story of one takeoff from Stephhensville in thick fog only to suffer a fire in a compartment under the cockpit, or departing La Guardia and losing three engines at takeoff resulting in what he thought was the shortest four engine flight on record. A book that I believe has never been out of print and regarded as one of the best books about flying ever written.
ReplyDeleteI'm on my third copy of FITH. It's disappeared from my library almost as many times as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas..
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