World War II Navigation

[Felix/FFDS]

You'll want to pick up the latest issue of The Aeroplane... they've been running articles headlining one aspect or another of aviation  ..  Article 6 of 12 this month is on Navigation...  

For an early (pre-1914) flight the pilot had two instruments (one probably a compass) and a rolling map ...

[Scorpiоn]

a compass and a rolling map ...

Geesh!  Glad I'm not trying to emulate that!

[Rifleman]

Of Course, but only one that I know of. It was called the E.N.I.A.C which was used by the military

Well done Andrew, I wouldn't think you were even aware of something that old......I think at the size of it, its hardly a hand-held device capable of being taken aboard any of the WWII A/C.....

By today's standards for electronic computers the ENIAC was a grotesque monster. Its thirty separate units, plus power supply and forced-air cooling, weighed over thirty tons. Its 19,000 vacuum tubes, 1,500 relays, and hundreds of thousands of resistors, capacitors, and inductors consumed almost 200 kilowatts of electrical power.