[Milsurplus] Naval Aviation Navigation

[William Donzelli]

> And if the aircraft flew out much farther than that, the pilot would
> only have to ded-reckon navigate back within 117 miles of the carrier
> to pick up the homing signal from the carrier's YG set.

The YE (YGs were shore based) antenna was always the very topmost thing on
the whole ship - even over the search radar antenna. This probably bought
quite bit more range.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org