Six miles off course. That's six miles after 200 miles of water. If I held this margin of...
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Charles Lindbergh:
[Mentally calculating what navigational error he can expect by the use of dead reckoning]
Six miles off course. That's six miles after 200 miles of water. If I held this margin of error, how far off course would I be when I hit Ireland? Let's see, it's 1,900 miles across the Atlantic. So that would... I'd be 60 miles off at Ireland. Well, I'll settle for that. And nothing too wrong with this dead reckoning navigation... except maybe the name.
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Six miles off course
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That's six miles after 200 miles of water
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If I held this margin of error
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how far off course would I be when I hit Ireland
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Let's see it's 1 900 miles across the Atlantic
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So that would I'd be 60 miles off at Ireland
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Well I'll settle for that
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And nothing too wrong with this dead reckoning navigation
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except maybe the name
Clip duration: 30 seconds
Views: 157
Timestamp in movie: 01h 19m 11s
Uploaded: 01 November, 2022
Genres: adventure, biography, drama
Summary: Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
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