Reply To: Air Navigation

[manxcat]

To JDavHouston
That ‘Fredienonoon Web-page’ I sent will keep you busy for a long time to come. There is a ton and a half of information on it (I’ve been through all of it). In what year was your A-12 manufactured? Is it a ‘Link’ model? If you have the time would you look up the “Navigation to Dakar” link on the Fredienoonan site. Gary LaPook seems extremely critical of Noonan’s navigation in this article. True, they missed Dakar by quite a lot, however, Lapook proves that they changed their distination in mid-flight from Dakar to Port St Louis (I assume because of poor weather over Dakar) I couldn’t understand what Gary LaPook was trying to get at in this article.It seems like there was something more that just bad weather at play in his criticisms. If you get a chance to look the article, let me know what you think. I’ve included another web-site you might find useful below (if you haven’t seen it already:
.landfallnavigation.com