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echo: aviation
to: ELVIS HARGROVE
from: JIM SANDERS
date: 1998-05-24 12:04:00
subject: Re: the sextant

ELVIS,
     In a message dated 05-23Ä98 you wrote ...
> ->    I think we still should continue to teach use of the sextant
> -> just as we furnish lifeboats, parachutes and life jackets.
>
> I heard THAT!
>
> A GPS is a delight, but a Sextant has no batteries.
    Glad someone agrees with me.  The periscopic has a bubble
 light but can be used without it. And the timer is clockworks.
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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