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FIGURE 5.1
Mockup of a Gee receiver in an Avro Lancaster bomber
photo by Peter Zijlstra
used with permission


 
FIGURE 5.2
Gee lattice chart showing northern England, Wales, and eastern Ireland (postwar reprint of 1944 edition)
British War Office
Public Domain: expired Crown Copyright


 
FIGURE 5.3
A call for public investment in aviation: Buffalo, NY, 1927
Buffalo Journal of Commerce
Public Domain: copyright not renewed


 
FIGURE 5.4
The directional Morse-code broadcasts of the US Radio Range create four narrow beams
William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.5
The network of Radio-Range airways in the United States in the late 1930s
from Ronald Keen, Wireless Direction Finding, 3rd ed. (London: Iliffe & Sons, 1938), 484, and Civil Aeronautics Authority, First Annual Report of the Civil Aeronautics Authority (Washington: USGPO, 1940), appendix B
Public Domain: US government


 
FIGURE 5.6
Radio Direction Finding (D/F) stations in Europe as of 1931
William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.7
German beams aimed at the UK during the Battle of Britain, summer 1941
William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.8
The British Oboe system, as configured for a bombing raid on Essen in 1942
William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.9
European coverage of the British Gee system at the end of World War II
William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.10
Coverage of the German Sonne system at the end of World War II
William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.11
Coverage of the American Loran system at the end of World War II

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William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.12
Hyperbolic navigation: position is determined by measuring the time difference between signals sent from two synchronized transmitters
William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.13
The hyperbolic grid of Loran off the east coast of the United States and Canada
from J. A. Pierce, “An Introduction to Loran,” Proceedings of the IRE 34 (May 1946), 219; shading added
Public Domain: copyright not renewed


 
FIGURE 5.14
Detail of Loran Chart, Atlantic Coast: Cape Sable to Cape Hatteras, chart 1000-L (1948)
US Coast and Geodetic Survey
Public Domain: US government


 
FIGURE 5.15
Plan for advancing Gee coverage in France and Germany after D-Day
British War Office
Copyright 1944


 
FIGURE 5.16
Trilateration surveying with Shoran after World War II
from Carl Aslakson, “The Influence of Electronics on Surveying and Mapping,” Surveying and Mapping (July–Sept 1950), 167
Public Domain: copyright not renewed


 
FIGURE 5.17
Trilateration performed during the 1950s and 1960s (shaded in gray)
from Defense Mapping Agency, Geodesy for the Layman, 5th ed. (Washington: DMA, 1983; map dated 1971), 18; shading added
Public Domain: US government


 
FIGURE 5.18
Advertisement for offshore radio surveying, 1959
from Surveying and Mapping (Mar 1959), 141
Public Domain: copyright not renewed


 
FIGURE 5.19
Advertisement for offshore radio surveying, 1971
Surveying and Mapping
Copyright 1971


 
FIGURE 5.20
The Floor of the World Ocean, by Richard Edes Harrison (1961 version of 1959 original)
from Annals of the Association of American Geographers 51 (Sept 1961)
Public Domain: copyright not renewed


 
FIGURE 5.21
British proposal for worldwide Consol and Decca coverage, 1947
from International Meeting on Marine Radio Aids to Navigation: Proceedings and Related Documents, April 28 – May 9, 1947 (Washington: State Department, 1948), facing 438; shading added
Public Domain: US government


 
FIGURE 5.22
1959 US plan for the VOR/DME airway network through 1965
from US Air Coordinating Committee Technical Division, “Short Distance Radionavigation: Background Information and Views Presented by the United States of America,” 1958 (ICAO, box “SP/COM/OPS/RAC 1958”), chart 9
Public Domain: US government


 
FIGURE 5.23
Expansion of Decca coverage, 1946–1985

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William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.24
Expansion of Loran-A coverage, 1946–1975

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William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.25
Expansion (and contraction) of Loran-C coverage, 1957–1996

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William Rankin
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FIGURE 5.26
Integrated map display with a fixed map and a movable "bug" showing the pilot's real-time location (1965)
Navigation (US)
Copyright 1965


 
FIGURE 5.27
A palm-sized "roller map" display that would automatically advance as the plane followed its course (1960)
Journal of the Institute of Navigation (UK)
Copyright 1960


 
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