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- Topic: Navigating In The Air
A leading American innovator in the field of celestial navigation from the 1920s to the 1960s, particularly in the areas of aeronautics and spaceflight.
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.
The PN-9 after "sailing" to Hawaii.
Harold Gatty designed this drift indicator in 1930 and used it on his 1931 around-the-world flight with Wiley Post in the Winnie Mae.
The quartz clock keeps better time than the best mechanical clocks.
Aircraft equipment locates signals from a ground station. Typically, a needle points toward a station, giving a bearing relative to the direction the aircraft is headed.