• Category: Antiques and Collectables - Antique Cameras and Optics - Other Antique Cameras and Optics
  • Condition: Used
  • Region: Gauteng - Alberton
  • Posted: > 1 month ago
  • Ad Type: Business

Bubble Sextant

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I am selling a bubble sextant navigation instrument
Used for aircraft navigation in World War II
A normal sextant is unsuitable for use in an aircraft because the horizon is not level with the observer as in a ship, so the bubble sextant was developed for aeronautical use in the 1920s. It was very important in WWII. The automatic averaging atachment was meant to ensure that unbiassed measurements were made while the bubble and observer wobbled randomly, so that the error would reduce as the square root of the number of observations. Sixty measurements were averaged as the observer tried to keep the bubble and a star in coincidence for a two minute period.

  • Category: Antiques and Collectables - Antique Cameras and Optics - Other Antique Cameras and Optics
  • Condition: Used
  • Region: Gauteng - Alberton
  • Posted: > 1 month ago
  • Ad Type: Business
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