Multimedia Gallery
- Media Type: Photograph
Trained in air navigation by P. V. H. Weems
Philip Payne, James DeWitt Hill, and Lloyd Bertaud with their plane Old Glory.
The 10E was an excellent aircraft, but it lacked sufficient range to make a South Pacific crossing safe and practical.
This Lockheed RC-121D featured periscopic sextant ports for celestial sightings, eliminating the need for astrodomes.
Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow made a series of transoceanic airline survey flights in this Lockheed Sirius.
Advances in computing made celestial navigation practical for the Mach 3+ SR-71.
The Astroinertial Navigation System helped this SR-71 Blackbird's crew set a coast-to-coast speed record of only 68 minutes.
The typically austere conditions present at many remote LORAN stations during World War II.
The control tower at Los Angeles International Airport is one part of a complex system of air navigation and traffic control.
Lt. Harry Crosby shortly before he deployed to England for combat in B-17 bombers with the 100th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force.