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Jim Whittaker uses a Magellan GPS receiver on Mt. Rainier.
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This chart taken from an Eighth Air Force report illustrates the relative accuracy of visual bombing methods with radar bombing. As can be seen, radar bombing was far less accurate.
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This chart taken from an Eighth Air Force report illustrates the growing dependence on radar bombing methods in the last year of the war in Europe.
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The shortest distance between two points on a globe is not always a straight line—it’s an arc called a great circle.
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Guidance, navigation, and control are three central facets of managing a craft in space.
Artifact
A post-war periscopic sextant often mounted this type of watch.
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Developed navigation tools, trained distance fliers in air navigation, and advised the Army Air Corps
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Harold Gatty instructs an Air Corps officer in the use of the drift indicator he invented.
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Presented by President Herbert Hoover at the White House on August 18, 1932.
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Navigator for 1931 Wiley Post around-the-world record flight in Lockheed Vega V-C "Winnie Mae"
