radio compass
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But radio compass bearings were relatively new navigational aids at the time and not trusted by veteran mariners.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2019
One of 16 B-29s on the way from California to Great Britain was having trouble with its radio compass.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the airway between Dayton, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va., the Army Air Service has installed a "radio compass," with electric oscillations flashing between the towers at either end of the airway.
From Time Magazine Archive
This one was to be most casual�a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared to the 81-hr.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Get that amateur with the radio compass who proved Mr. Perry's mathematical theory," suggested Bud.
From The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands by Duffield, J. W.
