Navigation
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Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. The field of navigation includes four general cat
A navigation system on an oil tanker
"The light of navigation", Dutch sailing handbook, 1608, showing compass, hourglass, sea astrolabe, terrestrial and celestial globes, divider, Jacob's staff and astrolabe.
German 16th century astrolabe
Harrison's Chronometer H5 of 1772, now on display at the Science Museum, London
Radio navigation
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Radio navigation or radionavigation is the application of radio waves to determine a position of an object on the Earth, either the vessel or an obstruction. Like radiolocation, it is a type of radiod
Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra had a prominent RDF loop on the cockpit roof.
The Orfordness Beacon as it appears today.
VOR transmitter station
Cessna 182 with GPS-based "glass cockpit" avionics