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Knew an old guy who was a navigator in C-130's back in the late 1960s. He used celestial navigation. You are probably right that this went away sometime in the
by taway_6PplYu5 3y ago
Knew an old guy who was a navigator in C-130's back in the late 1960s. He used celestial navigation.
You are probably right that this went away sometime in the 1970s.
Damn, now I'm feeling old. I miss the stars.
- nvy 3y agoYour friend probably looked out the skylight and actually oriented himself on the stars' positions. I'm saying something different, which is that unlike the SR-71, the C-130 didn't and doesn't have an instrument that scans the sky and automatically determines where it is based on the constellations it can see.