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

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

Chief purpose of any direction finder in transport flying is not alone to locate ground points but to help determine the plane's position in flight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inside the rifle was a tiny radar direction finder.

From On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Glanzman, Louis