HAVE A PROFESSIONAL MODEL OF IT IN MY DEN.

I AM 81 YEARS OLD AND GREW UP IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF AVIATION.

FLY WITH THE CIVIL AIR PATROL AS A MISSION OBSERVER AND VOLUNTEER AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE.

AM CURRENTLY STUDYING TO PASS THE FAA WRITTEN TEST AND MAY TAKE FLYING LESSONS.

LOVE AVIATION AND FLYING

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Regards

Frederick Noonan was the lead for Pan AM. We are researching his work. Help is needed here: do you or any one you know have any pictures, letters, or articles on Navigator Fred Noonan that you can share with us all?

Fred Noonan had to be one of the best and brightest navs to have ever flown and we wish to establish this factually. He used the “Agiton” celestial computations for celestial (which required an exceptional understanding of spherical trigonometry) and established the R&D methods used by Pan Am on the then brand new, radio direction finder net work used on their routes. He had to have also been very good at Morse Code as he was prior to flying (20 years) a maritime sailor and rated Sea Captain which all extensively utilized CW Morse Code.

Side Note: Sorry to say much of which has been written about Noonan by non-aviation, non-navigator folks, who had never been, there or ever-done-that-authors is pure BS.

Ronald P Barrett, President Air Force Navigators Observers Association ( http://www.afnoa.org )