Multimedia Gallery
- Navigators & Inventors: Philip Van Horn Weems
Weems used this sextant in training Charles Lindbergh and Lincoln Ellsworth.
This forerunner of the ubiquitous E-6B flight computer was prominent in the five years before World War II.
This 1933 computer solved wind drift and time-speed-distance problems.
Amelia Earhart was busy in May 1937 repairing her crash-damaged Lockeed Electra 10E.
Weems had just trained famed British aviator Amy Johnson in celestial navigation.
The Link A-12 Sextant represented a new generation of “averaging” sextants.
The Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch eliminated a simple but troublesome calculation in celestial computations.
These watches were often more popular for their use as fashion accessories than their practical application as navigational tools.
Early 1930s military version of the Gatty Drift Indicator.
A leading American innovator in the field of celestial navigation from the 1920s to the 1960s, particularly in the areas of aeronautics and spaceflight.
