The Advent of Scientific Aircraft Navigation

Two Portuguese aerial navigators, Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral, crossed for the first time, from Europe to the South Atlantic in 1922; they developed and used for the first time scientific methods of astronomic navigation when flying out of sight of land: a path corrector and a precision sextan...

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Main Author: Barata, Jorge M M (author)
Other Authors: Mendes, António (author), Morgado, Cândido M. P. (author), Neves, Fernando M. S. P. (author), Silva, André (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
Subjects:
History of the Sextant
Gago Coutinho
Precision Sextant
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/11560
Country:Portugal
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