direction finder
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One involved Noonan doing celestial navigation; the other, her use of a radio “bearing” direction finder.
From Forbes ● Nov. 10, 2014
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
He wanted to show Europeans how simple and safe it was to fly their own planes, especially with the Lear automatic pilot, the Lear automatic direction finder and the Lear omnirange navigational system.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said the pilot: "They must have had good equipment, including a direction finder, to pick up my transmission that quickly."
From Time Magazine Archive
If only he could find—but there it was: a direction finder.
From Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various
