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grid navigation

A method of navigation using a grid overlay for direction reference. See also navigational grid.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Overcoming the unique challenges of polar navigation through the development of grid navigation procedures marked a significant advancement in making the Polar Concept a reality.
Like earlier challenges of cold weather flying and grid navigation, arctic aerial reconnaissance still faced a significant tactical problem to achieve the operational mission.
Arctic linchpin: the Polar Concept in American air atomic strategy, 1946-1948
Grid navigation in high latitudes was developed in Canada after World War II.
High-latitude approach: most of us never look at the old whiskey compass in the cockpit, but it represents the cornerstone of navigation. Think you can get where you're going if you can't use it?
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