Multimedia Gallery
A backup Mariner spacecraft hangs in the National Air and Space Museum’s Milestones of Flight gallery.
A mariner’s astrolabe measures the angle of the Sun or a star above the horizontal line of reference.
The Mark 3 Plotting Board was used in single-seat aircraft flying in the Pacific.
This compact projector used film strips to overlay star curves onto special plotting charts to determine lines of position.
The Mark IIB Pelorus drift sight was lighter than most drift sights, but required more work to use.
It 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.
Used in pioneering trans-Pacific airline service by Pan American Airways.
Instructor for Weems System of Navigation
