Link A-12 Sextant

The A-12 sextant was designed with Weems’ assistance just before World War II and manufactured by Ed Link, of Link trainer fame. It represented a new generation of “averaging” sextants that compensated for “Dutch roll” in airplanes by taking multiple sightings and computing an average without manual calculations.

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The Link A-12 Sextant represented a new generation of “averaging” sextants.
Type: Artifact
Image Date: 2012
Credit: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Origin: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Creator: Jaclyn Nash
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The Link A-12 Sextant represented a new generation of “averaging” sextants.

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The Link A-12 Sextant represented a new generation of “averaging” sextants.

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The Link A-12 Sextant represented a new generation of “averaging” sextants.