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

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

Like a sonic direction finder, Buregarde turned his head and listened.

From History Repeats by Martinez