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“Flying the beam” in the 1930s and 1940s meant using radio range stations to navigate.
Navigators commonly felt that pilots and commanders did not fully appreciate their efforts. Their job was complex and not readily understood by others. “Hot rock” was period slang for “hotshot.”
Like most air navigators, Crosby saw celestial navigation as the high point of their art. But, in the European theater, most navigators relied mainly on radio and dead reckoning navigation.
Over thousands of years, Polynesians migrated across vast distances and spread their culture across the Pacific.
Airsickness was common among new navigators, who frequently had to look at the ground through drift sights and make calculations while maneuvering. Crosby suffered more than most, but it did not stop him from becoming one of the war’s top navigators.
This graphic shows how personal radiometric and inertial navigation devices could allow incident commanders to keep track of firefighters within a burning building.
This graphic shows how personal radiometric and inertial navigation devices could allow incident commanders to keep track of firefighters within a burning building.
ADS-B is the core technology of next-generation systems of air navigation and air traffic control.
Celestial navigation involved taking readings with a sextant that were automatically fed into the Apollo Guidance Computer.
Bats, Samoa (Pteropus samoensis)
