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Celestial navigation innovator and instructor
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Weems star altitude curves helped simplify celestial navigation.
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It reduced computations for celestial sightings through the use of the Greenwich Hour Angle.
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Books published by the Weems System of Navigation.
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This cropped wartime advertisement utilized the spotlight given to the newly established aircrew position of non-pilot navigator.
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Weems developed this simple but effective plotter for aeronautical charts in 1935.
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Charles Lindbergh used this celestial navigation equipment while under instruction by P. V. H. Weems in May 1928.
