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Old 13th Jan 2015, 02:27
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Regarding the navigational equipment on Charles Lindbergh's Ryan NYP -

A Drift Meter is not very effective without a compass. Lindbergh's primary navigational aid, (other than looking through the periscope and side windows), was an Earth Inductor Compass, driven by an anemometer mounted on top of the fuselage behind the cockpit. Quite accurate. Yes!...an electrically driven cockpit navigational aid in the 1920s!

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