User talk:Rthardy

Editing concerns

 * 1) Your first edit/creation requires cleanup, verification, and context. -- K u k i ni  hablame aqui 13:28, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Johnson's Corner
I am going to have to delete the article as it still has no context, but I believe that you might possibly be building a real article, and we just cannot tell yet. Please read the links I gave you above, work on this article in your sandbox, and bring it back to life once it meets minimum wikipedia standards.-- K u k i ni  hablame aqui 14:49, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Johnson's Corner...?

Pacific Ocean navigation was difficult in the early days of aviation. It often involved flying long distances to small islands.

The basic procedure, called dead reckoning, was to fly a constant heading for a specified time, and then look for and expect to find the target, but that was inefficient.

The most efficient course to fly would have been to follow a great circle route, but that was effectively impossible given the available navigation aids, so a compromise was often made to divide the route into two parts: Fly a constant heading for a specified time, then turn to a new heading, fly for a specified time, and expect to find the target.

This was routinely done in flying from the mainland USA to Hawaii, and the turn was made at an empty spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean called Johnson's Corner.