sextant

18 photos and 2 illustrations tagged sextant, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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Bob Bage and J. Hunter at 65 miles south / photograph by Archibald Maclean

from State Library of New South Wales

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • George Oates said:
    Shame it's not a wee bit bigger (or, much bigger!). Be nice to poke around at what's on the sled :)
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    Hi George, Thanks for the comment. If you follow the Persistent url link, you'll land in our Manuscripts, Oral History and Pictures catalogue. There you'll find the record for the photo and you can click into the image and enlarge it to view the detail.
  • Sandra Schwab said:
    I would caption this one: "Hangin out with the laundry"....LOL
    OOoooo George, ditto, "Say, what's under this bundle....???"
  • valkrye131 said:
    Curious about using glass negatives @ waaay below freezing temperatures. Guess you have to be sure & careful, eh?
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    from caption:
    "Bage instructing Hunter in the use of the artificial horizon"

Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude (LOC

from The Library of Congress

  • minions & myrmidons said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Face Time, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
  • tacit rabbits said:
    unique capture
  • Micronetal said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called La Mar de Flickr, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

SDASM Aircraft Image

from SDASM Archives

  • John ( Cardwellpix ) said:
    Strange !
  • TVL1970 said:
    Identity provided from elsewhere in the SDASM collection, Miss Lucille Thomas.
  • draglink said:
    great site for us enthusiasts !