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Octant marked: "Andrew Newell / Maker / Boston," about 1800
Lindbergh relied on this type of compass in the Spirit of St. Louis to maintain course on the way to Paris until it malfunctioned.
The PN-9 after "sailing" to Hawaii.
The Fokker C-2 America with the engines running on a specially built takeoff hill on Roosevelt Field before Richard Byrd's transatlantic attempt.
Electronics Technician 1st Class David Schlessinger on board the USS Alabama.
Staff Sgt. Derek Howard, 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, watches cargo bundles delivered by the Joint Precision Air Drop System (JPADS) to a drop zone in Afghanistan.
While returning from a “shuttle” mission to the Soviet Union on July 5, 1944, the 100th Bomb Group attacked targets in France. Crosby used this map during the mission.
The certification set for the first-general aviation LORAN-C receiver.
