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Lt. Lester Maitland and Lt. Hegenberger with the Fokker C-2 Bird of Paradise.
Amelia Earhart was busy in May 1937 repairing her crash-damaged Lockeed Electra 10E.
Weems had just trained famed British aviator Amy Johnson in celestial navigation.
Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow made a series of transoceanic airline survey flights in this Lockheed Sirius.
The Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch eliminated a simple but troublesome calculation in celestial computations.
Early 1930s military version of the Gatty Drift Indicator.
Used in pioneering trans-Pacific airline service by Pan American Airways.
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.
A leading American innovator in the field of celestial navigation from the 1920s to the 1960s, particularly in the areas of aeronautics and spaceflight.
