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- Topic: Navigation Tools
“Flying the beam” in the 1930s and 1940s meant using radio range stations to navigate.
This compact averaging sextant was widely used in the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.
ADS-B is the core technology of next-generation systems of air navigation and air traffic control.
This electo-mechanical system computed positions based on a series of dead reckoning inputs.
Pioneered Air Corps navigation technology
One of the most common navigation watches produced, with many used by the U.S. military well into the Cold War era.
The first LORAN receiver for aircraft use to enter service.
Trained in celestial navigation by Harold Gatty
Celestial navigation involved taking readings with a sextant that were automatically fed into the Apollo Guidance Computer.
Astronauts used celestial sightings to update data stored in this computer, which calculated the spacecraft’s velocity and location.
