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Distance flier and polar explorer
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Developed navigation computers
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Lindbergh carried (but did not use) a drift meter like this on his flight to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Lindbergh relied on this type of compass in the Spirit of St. Louis to maintain course on the way to Paris until it malfunctioned.
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This octant was used by the Lindberghs in the Tingmissartoq.
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The PLGR was smaller and lighter than the older Manpack GPS receiver.
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A Mercury astronaut used this mechanical device to determine his position relative to the Earth below.
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Harold Gatty designed this drift indicator in 1930 and used it on his 1931 around-the-world flight with Wiley Post in the Winnie Mae.
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The Manpack was one of the first portable GPS receivers for combat troops.
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LORAN receivers picked up signals that were either broadcast directly from stations as "ground waves" or reflected as "sky waves".