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
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
She still gave no position and the Itasca's direction finder could not get a bearing because she had failed to adjust her radio to its frequency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Baron adjusted the direction finder and made scribbled calculations.
From The End of Time by Wallace West
