{"id":340,"date":"2013-02-05T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aafcollection.info\/comm\/?p=340"},"modified":"2013-02-05T13:38:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:38:30","slug":"the-astro-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2013\/02\/05\/the-astro-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Astro Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9475a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-341  \" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Click for larger view\" alt=\"Astro Compass\" src=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9475a-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9475a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9475a-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9475a-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9475a-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9475a-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_9475a-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astro Compass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a title=\"Navigator's Information File\" href=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/items\/list.php?item=000021\">Navigator&#8217;s Information File<\/a> has a description of the Astro Compass (or Astrocompass) .\u00a0 This device was used by navigators to determine the true heading of the airplane, to steer a true heading, to identify a star, or as a pelorus, a device without magnetic needles used to read bearings.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear to me if, or how often, this device was actually used.\u00a0 I ran across an Astro Compass while visiting the <a title=\"Air Force Armament Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afarmamentmuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">United States Air Force Armament Museum<\/a> at Eglin Air Force Base, near Fort Walton Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pages 122 and 123 of the Navigator&#8217;s Information File describe how to adjust and use the Astro Compass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NIF122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-343\" title=\"Click for larger view\" alt=\"NIF122\" src=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NIF122-230x300.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NIF122-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NIF122-785x1024.jpg 785w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NIF122.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 85vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NIF123.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-342\" title=\"Click for larger view\" alt=\"NIF123\" src=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NIF123-231x300.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NIF123-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NIF123-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NIF123.jpg 821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 85vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navigator&#8217;s Information File has a description of the Astro Compass (or Astrocompass) .\u00a0 This device was used by navigators to determine the true heading of the airplane, to steer a true heading, to identify a star, or as a pelorus, a device without magnetic needles used to read bearings. It is unclear to me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2013\/02\/05\/the-astro-compass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Astro Compass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,29],"tags":[58,59,50],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlighted-item","category-history","tag-astrocompass","tag-navigation","tag-navigator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}