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Widely used by navigators in the Navy during World War II and the early Cold War.

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Used for plotting on larger aircraft, such as bombers and transports.

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This mid-1950s era VOR receiver helped usher in a new era of all-weather navigation capability for light aircraft at moderate cost.

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Cmdr. John Rodgers and his crew spent nine days adrift at sea in this aircraft after failing to rendezvous with a refueling ship.

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The U.S. Navy’s Curtiss NC-4 flying boat made the first crossing of the Atlantic by air in 1919. 

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