radio compass

Oliver pointed to the radio compass and then to the altimeter.

The fighters had dot-dash gear; the radio compass did not.

Fitted with a radio compass and gun camera.

A radio compass depends on the directional qualities of a loop antenna.

In 1921, the US Navy installed a radio compass station.

The inquiry thought it was probable that the crew relied on dead reckoning rather than radio compass.

In Number 2, the radio compass stopped working as well, but it resumed working later in the flight.

They initially attempted to create a radio compass, but could not develop a successful design, partly as a consequence of their isolation.

Had his radio compass not been luminous-dialed, he would have needed a flashbeam to read it.

When Radio Compass has moved to a position where it is twice the original bearing, stop timing and note the interval.

A touch of the right button illuminated the needle of the radio compass that was zeroed in on my home base.

No radar in those days and primitive radio-the pilots of the plane guards were the only ones I could talk to via the radio compass.

Wind troubled us only moderately, and our radio compasses helped us through the one opaque fog we encountered.

ADF means automatic direction finding, and for us this means the radio compass.

Redesignation for 3202s fitted with radio compass and equipped for instrument flight training.

Near the Arctic Circle, the magnetic compasses fluctuated wildly, and the fliers ignored them, relying instead on the radio compass.

'That' 'That' proved to be an antiquated radio compass loop.

The US Army Air Corps in 1931 tested a primitive radio compass that used commercial stations as the beacon.

Radio range homing equipment transmitted tone identification signals to aircraft that lacked a radio compass but were equipped with command sets.

Halliday was following a bend in the road, and the radio compass rotated steadily, from 145 to 150 , and then on around to 160 .

In January 1922 Renshaw calibrated radio compasses for the 12th Naval District.

Note Radio Compass (RC) bearing.

Employed in setting up radio compass stations along the Maine coast, she was also used as a boarding boat, meeting vessels arriving off the port of Boston.

New equipment was added, which Darius and Girėnas did not have, such as a variable pitch propeller to improve engine performance and a radio compass.

In March the Fleet held a war game off the coast of Peru and Ecuador; for this exercise I was assigned as radio compass officer.