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- Topic: Navigating In The Air
This pair of Weems-type second-setting “avigation” watches in a shock-mounted case dates from about 1934.
Arthur Goebel's Travel Air 5000 Woolaroc.
Its principal purpose was to determine magnetic variation.
An astrodome provided an enclosed area from which a navigator could take sightings.
After her near-miraculous rescue in the middle of the Atlantic, Elder took to Vaudeville at an extravagant salary. A movie dramatization of "The American Girl's" flight fell through, but Elder landed starring roles in two Hollywood features and soon amassed a fortune of $250,000. Unfortunately, her fame faded quickly and other female aviators with more experience quickly eclipsed her. By the late 1930s, she was largely forgotten until salacious details from one of her divorce proceedings would again appear in the papers.
A standard military drift sight through the World War II and early Cold War eras.
One of the first effective models of bubble sextant for aeronautical use.
