direction finder
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Why would Earhart start out on such a hazardous journey without knowing how to operate her aircraft’s radio direction finder to the nth degree?
From Forbes ● Nov. 10, 2014
One involved Noonan doing celestial navigation; the other, her use of a radio “bearing” direction finder.
From Forbes ● Nov. 10, 2014
In the lagoon lies the 6,000-ton S. S. Northwind, with a radio direction finder and a 35-man airport staff which laid out a runway channel with green and red buoys.
From Time Magazine Archive
Best known is his Learmatic Navigator, a combined automatic radio direction finder and directional gyro, for which he got the Frank Hawks Memorial Award last December.
From Time Magazine Archive
AERIAL, LOOP.—Also called a coil aerial, coil antenna, loop aerial, loop antenna and when used for the purpose a direction finder.
From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins
