Multimedia Gallery
- Topic: Navigating In The Air
Aviator Ruth Elder and her co-pilot/instructor George Haldeman disappeared over the Atlantic creating a desperate scramble to determine their whereabouts.
She served as an instructor at the U.S. Naval Reserve Air Auxiliary Station at Camp Kearney, California.
This station was one of the first to make radio time signals available.
Length: 43 Minutes, 51 Seconds
This cropped wartime advertisement utilized the spotlight given to the newly established aircrew position of non-pilot navigator.
Aircraft equipment interprets a bearing from time delay in signals transmitted by a ground-based station.
Naval aviators had unique navigational challenges in the expansive environment of the Pacific theater.
The clock from the Spirit of St. Louis.
Weems developed this simple but effective plotter for aeronautical charts in 1935.