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- Navigators & Inventors: Charles Lindbergh
Weems used this sextant in training Charles Lindbergh and Lincoln Ellsworth.
Charles Lindbergh in front of his Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri.
Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow made a series of transoceanic airline survey flights in this Lockheed Sirius.
The Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch eliminated a simple but troublesome calculation in celestial computations.
These watches were often more popular for their use as fashion accessories than their practical application as navigational tools.
Reporters expressed surprise at Lindbergh’s admission of a shortfall in his navigation skills.
Probably in San Diego, 1930.
Lindbergh carried (but did not use) a drift meter like this on his flight to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis.
Lindbergh relied on this type of compass in the Spirit of St. Louis to maintain course on the way to Paris until it malfunctioned.
This octant was used by the Lindberghs in the Tingmissartoq.