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

In the lagoon lies the 6,000-ton S. S. Northwind, with a radio direction finder and a 35-man airport staff which laid out a runway channel with green and red buoys.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inside the rifle was a tiny radar direction finder.

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