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

There three months ago a Pan American airport crew set up a base, installed a direction finder in an abandoned mission.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only half of Jason's mind was occupied with the work as he drew up a list of materials he would need for the psionic direction finder.

From Deathworld by Dongen, H. R. van