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- Topic: Navigation Tools
Earhart used an antenna similar to this later model in her attempt to locate Howland Island.
"Black box" refers to more than just a flight data recorder for accident investigations. It often refers to electronic components in an aircraft that monitor or control flight or that support communication and navigation.
A maritime sextant with a special bubble attachement to the eyepiece to aid in establishing a horizon in aeronautical use, circa 1919.
Weems used this sextant in training Charles Lindbergh and Lincoln Ellsworth.
A shortcut method of speeding up celestial computations.
It contained a crystal ocillator and was key to the LORAN system.
This mechanical cassette was used with the Fairchild-Maxson Line of Position Computer.
Made first trans-polar flight with assistance of P. V. H. Weems.
This chart showing Nova Scotia to Cape Cod, based on Samuel de Champlain’s observations, was published in 1607.