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Celestial navigation innovator and instructor
Artifact
Lindbergh carried (but did not use) a drift meter like this on his flight to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis.
Artifact
Lindbergh relied on this type of compass in the Spirit of St. Louis to maintain course on the way to Paris until it malfunctioned.
Artifact
This octant was used by the Lindberghs in the Tingmissartoq.
Photograph
The PN-9 after "sailing" to Hawaii.
Artifact
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.
Illustration
LORAN receivers picked up signals that were either broadcast directly from stations as "ground waves" or reflected as "sky waves".
Illustration
The quartz clock keeps better time than the best mechanical clocks.
Photograph
The poor resolution of early radar scope images may be seen in this scope photograph of a mission near Munich.
Illustration
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.