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Royal Institute of Navigation navigation game mounted inside a book, and is designed to teach people air navigation through a fictitious raid into Germany during WW2. I have the same book and count myself lucky. I saw a copy at a book fair – it was somewhat battered, priced around £35 and seemed not enough for the money. By the time second-thoughts kicked in it had gone. It was 2 to 3 years before I found another copy for sale and that time I did buy it. In its own way it is a navigation simulator. There are aerial photographs of features en route – since these are not the expected landmarks the reader is expected to work out where they are from the chart and what correction must be made. I will give the book closer attention soon and give a better description then. PS: Like London buses…I saw another copy at a book fair only last week. _____________________________________________________________ Air Pilotage 1935 and 1941 issues of AP1234. Photo credit pkh-l. AP1234 will be familiar to many as the RAF manual on air navigation. Most of the copies that are to be found now are of the second edition that was written by Dickie Richardson with help from Francis Chichester in 1941 and re-issued for the public in 1944. Although the RAF air navigation manual was always designated AP1234 there were considerable differences as the book evolved. The 1941 second edition was a hardback book about 7x10 inches entitled “Air Navigation”. The pre-war issue of 1935 was a smaller book, about 6x9 inches, entitled “Manual of Air Navigation”; it was loose leaf and bound with string between cardboard covers. However AP1234 came into existence in 1927, again string bound between hard covers, and titled “Manual of Air Pilotage”. I was interested in the nomenclature. Why did “Air Pilotage” become “Air Navigation”? The answer was to be found in the Flight issue of 14 Feb 35 p.173 in the section “Royal Air Force - Service Notes and News and Air Ministry announcements”. One announcement was as follows… “It has been decided that the use of the term “air pilotage” is to be discontinued. In all correspondence and reports relating to the subject the term “air navigation” is to be used. The following changes of title will be made. (i) Air Pilotage School to be Air Navigation School. (ii) The 13 weeks of Page 6 of 16
Royal Institute of Navigation Air Pilotage Course to be Short Navigation Course. (iii) The N course at RAF Calshot to be Specialist Navigation Course. (iv) Manual of Air Pilotage (AP1234) to be Manual of Air Navigation Vol I. (v) Manual of Air Navigation (AP1456) to be Manual of Air Navigation Vol II. Air pilotage officers will be known as ‘navigation officers’ and will be denoted by the symbol (sn) in the List of Units in the Air Force List when filling vacancies which officers so qualified are allowed. Specialist N officers will continue to be identified by the symbol N in the graduate list and by the symbol (n) when filling vacancies for which officers so qualified are allowed. AP1234 (1927) Manual of Air Pilotage. Photo credit pkhl. I noticed elsewhere that AP1234 1927 “Manual of Air Pilotage” had been described as a re-issue of AP44 (1920). So, where can I find AP44 1920 “Notes on Air Pilotage” ? _____________________________________________________________ Enquiries Hannibal’s Navigation Since the Institute is the principle authority on navigation in the UK it is not just unsurprising but it is a pleasure to read of the exchange recently between RIN and Dr Lothar Stenger. He wrote … First of all I hope, that you can excuse my faulty knowledge of the English language - thank you. The following questions were sent to the German Institute of Navigation (DGON) in Bonn/Germany some days ago, but the answer was not very complete. Mr Gronemann/DGON gave me your address and the idea, to ask you the same questions: I am interested to know, for example, how Hannibal found his way through the alps to attack the Roman, without any maps or somewhat else, we use today. The similar question is for me, how Alexander the Great succeeded coming to India and back again. I think, here were not only problems with the geographic situation, but further the differfent languages. Page 7 of 16
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