Radio navigation aid

Radio navigation aid

Radio navigational aids, much like hearing aids, are small devices that allow other technological devices to receive signals which help with navigation.

History

Invented by Lord Roger Burrman in 1922, radio navigational aids have long since evolved from the early models which were primitive devices crudely fashioned together with copper wires. Testing began with modern radio navigational aids in the mid 1960s around the same time as the Apollo Program. Current models have proven to be much more successful with the advent of smaller technologies and evolving attitudes concerning their use.

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