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The Mark 3 Plotting Board was used in single-seat aircraft flying in the Pacific.
The Mark IIB Pelorus drift sight was lighter than most drift sights, but required more work to use.
Widely used by navigators in the Navy during World War II and the early Cold War.
Cmdr. John Rodgers and his crew spent nine days adrift at sea in this aircraft after failing to rendezvous with a refueling ship.
The U.S. Navy’s Curtiss NC-4 flying boat made the first crossing of the Atlantic by air in 1919.
The PN-9 after "sailing" to Hawaii.
This is a typical radio range receiver used in the late 1930s on private airplanes.
The Fokker C-2 America with the engines running on a specially built takeoff hill on Roosevelt Field before Richard Byrd's transatlantic attempt.
