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  2. Navigational instrument - Wikipedia

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    Navigational instruments are instruments used by nautical navigators and pilots as tools of their trade. The purpose of navigation is to ascertain the present position and to determine the speed, direction , etc. to arrive at the port or point of destination.

  3. Low-frequency radio range - Wikipedia

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    Low-frequency radio range audio signals: N stream, A stream and combined uniform tone (simulated sounds) The low-frequency radio range, also known as the four-course radio range, LF/MF four-course radio range, A-N radio range, Adcock radio range, or commonly "the range", was the main navigation system used by aircraft for instrument flying in the 1930s and 1940s, until the advent of the VHF ...

  4. History of navigation - Wikipedia

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    The history of navigation, or the history of seafaring, is the art of directing vessels upon the open sea through the establishment of its position and course by means of traditional practice, geometry, astronomy, or special instruments.

  5. LORAN - Wikipedia

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    LORAN (Long Range Navigation) [a] was a hyperbolic radio navigation system developed in the United States during World War II. It was similar to the UK's Gee system but operated at lower frequencies in order to provide an improved range up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km) with an accuracy of tens of miles.

  6. Radio navigation - Wikipedia

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    The low-frequency radio range (LFR, also "Four Course Radio Range" among other names) was the main navigation system used by aircraft for instrument flying in the 1930s and 1940s in the U.S. and other countries, until the advent of the VOR in the late 1940s. It was used for both en route navigation as well as instrument approaches. [citation ...

  7. Omega (navigation system) - Wikipedia

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    Alpha, the Russian counterpart of the Omega Navigation System, still partially in use as of November 2017. Decca Navigator Decca had earlier proposed a system known as Delrac that Omega was subsequently based on. [1] LORAN, low frequency terrestrial radio navigation system, still in use (US and Canadian operations terminated 2010).