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  • Thumbnail for Thrust bearing
    A thrust bearing is a particular type of rotary bearing. Like other bearings they permanently rotate between parts, but they are designed to support a...
    7 KB (824 words) - 10:46, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Non-directional beacon
    appropriate relative bearing. To simplify this task, a compass card driven by the aircraft's magnetic compass is added to the RBI to form a radio magnetic indicator...
    25 KB (3,238 words) - 20:30, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Automatic direction finder
    aircraft radio-navigation instrument that automatically and continuously displays the relative bearing from the ship or aircraft to a suitable radio station...
    11 KB (1,378 words) - 22:23, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amelia Earhart
    similar call asking for a bearing was received at 6:45 am, when Earhart estimated they were 100 miles (160 km) away. An Itasca radio log at 7:30–7:40 am states...
    122 KB (13,337 words) - 23:02, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Direction finding
    slowly making these redundant. A radio direction finder (RDF) is a device for finding the direction, or bearing, to a radio source. The act of measuring the...
    73 KB (10,441 words) - 12:04, 5 August 2024
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    with directional antennas (RDF receivers) to determine the exact bearing of a radio signal, to determine the location of the transmitter. The location...
    140 KB (14,995 words) - 22:33, 31 July 2024
  • (true) bearing to the station from the craft, TB or QUJ, is composed of the true heading, TH, plus the relative bearing, RB, of the station. The bearing from...
    2 KB (371 words) - 19:05, 1 September 2020
  • plot a line of bearing to an intercepted signal, and if more than one receiver detects it, triangulation can estimate its location. Radio direction finding...
    10 KB (1,188 words) - 16:08, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Course deviation indicator
    instrument can be referred to as an "omni bearing indicator" ("OBI"). The course line is selected by turning an "omni bearing selector" or "OBS" knob usually located...
    5 KB (661 words) - 04:29, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for BSAA Star Tiger disappearance
    icing, fog or electrical storms. At 03:04 Radio Officer Robert Tuck aboard Star Tiger requested a radio bearing from Bermuda, but the signal was not strong...
    19 KB (2,406 words) - 06:28, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radio beacon
    radio beacon or radiobeacon is a kind of beacon, a device that marks a fixed location and allows direction-finding equipment to find relative bearing...
    12 KB (1,464 words) - 11:42, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radio navigation
    measurements from/to electric beacons, especially Angular directions, e.g. by bearing, radio phases or interferometry, Distances, e.g. ranging by measurement of...
    40 KB (5,305 words) - 14:59, 18 June 2024
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    batteries. Radio communications were made using a decimeter band transmitter via the high gain antenna for spacecraft commands and telemetry. Radio bearing was...
    5 KB (630 words) - 09:31, 5 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Bearing Witness (2023 film)
    Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre (also unofficially called סרט הזוועות, lit. 'the atrocity film' or 'the film of horrors' in Hebrew) is a compilation...
    28 KB (2,464 words) - 19:42, 30 June 2024
  • system could not distinguish between a direct or reciprocal bearing contact. The same radio bearing would be returned whether the bomber was inbound or outbound...
    10 KB (1,359 words) - 11:12, 2 July 2024
  • Procedure words (abbreviated to prowords) are words or phrases limited to radio telephone procedure used to facilitate communication by conveying information...
    37 KB (3,325 words) - 15:49, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for VHF omnidirectional range
    that VOR provides a bearing from the station to the aircraft which does not vary with wind or orientation of the aircraft. VHF radio is less vulnerable...
    50 KB (6,461 words) - 19:12, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rod end bearing
    A rod end bearing, also known as a heim joint (N. America) or rose joint (U.K. and elsewhere), is a mechanical articulating joint. Such joints are used...
    5 KB (668 words) - 10:00, 13 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Isfjord Radio
    with a radio building and a barracks for 21 people. The slipway and boathouse survived the war. The new station was equipped with radio bearing. Following...
    18 KB (1,672 words) - 06:05, 28 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for M-1956 load-carrying equipment
    slide keepers on the reverse for attachment to a belt. The M-1956 load-bearing equipment was originally adopted for use exclusively by the United States...
    22 KB (3,307 words) - 01:00, 23 July 2024
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