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

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

In testing, the loud horn and red LED on the direction finder pointed us directly back within feet of the victim.

From Time Magazine Archive

If only he could find—but there it was: a direction finder.

From Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various