[Milsurplus] another neat item... INTERCEPT OFFICERS EQUIPMENT

[mikea]

On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 02:39:47AM -0400, Gregory W. Moore wrote:
> Ed,
> do you have a pix of the Japanese plotter?  It sounds from your 
> description like a standard nav plotter used with sectional charts 
> today, and is used to lay off courses from true to magnetic.
> The other possibility, is it a pantograph?  That configuration was used 
> with a driftmeter.
> If you have a pix, send it on, will try to figure it out (I am a pilot 
> as well as an avid milspec type, and have an interest in the "old" 
> methods of nav (celestial, etc) just because they are there..

I also would like to see it. 

On a slightly different note, I saw a line in a book I read not
long back about fabricating the object in a blueprint according 
to MIL-TFP-41: "Make It Like The F*ing Print For Once".

I was reading in bed, and She Who Must Be Obeyed complained about
my shaking the bed, I was laughing so hard.

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964