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They did have compasses, but those do not give you your position. So if you've been flying for four hours at night, with a thirty mph wind, you could be 120 mil
by danielvf 10y ago
They did have compasses, but those do not give you your position. So if you've been flying for four hours at night, with a thirty mph wind, you could be 120 miles away from where you planned on being. You need some way of getting an absolute position, which these provided.
- astrodust 10y agoWindspeed is not unlike ocean currents, but since the speeds involved are a lot higher than in a boat errors in estimation accumulate way more quickly.