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

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

The positions of distress calls from boats that don�t have DSC capable radios can be determined by triangulating the automatic direction finder bearings from all of the antennas receiving the signal.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various