That was more of a course correction than her on-board navigational system could handle. |
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The sextant, a navigational tool used to indicate latitude, was lent to the museum by a local maritime historian. |
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There was a great need for navigational aids in the form of good sea charts. |
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Always have good navigational links on every page and place your company logo on each page. |
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Image map systems have been all but abandoned in favour of effects of pull-down or drop-down menus and other navigational devices. |
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In Buoy, he re-used the bells, recasting them into a fully working navigational buoy, which followed the routes once taken by Soviet submarines. |
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Similarly, the navigational window pane is can be automatically restored when the user reselects the help window. |
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Moments later, automatic commands deployed its solar arrays and navigational antennas. |
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First, the pilot's cross-check will be determined by the navigational or tactical task loading instead of by the potential for collision. |
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Soon there will be navigational instruments such as position locators as part of the dive computer. |
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These rivers were vital navigational arteries for the Romans to reach the Bay of Bengal. |
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In loxodromic navigation two characteristic problems are encountered when calculating the necessary navigational parameters. |
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This trainee air force pilot died last week, crashing his training aircraft while on a navigational training flight. |
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Airline companies were also being warned because the magnetic burst could affect navigational systems. |
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The probe's launch is the first in a series of critical navigational maneuvers on which the success of the mission depends. |
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In mist or under a covering of snow, however, navigational skills will be tested. |
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For example, Hutchins showed that the preliterate Micronesians employed an abstract navigational system that used the stars symbolically. |
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Links do require little more work to update, but, on the plus side, a more rational navigational structure is sometimes possible. |
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Four programmable launch buttons, two on each side flanking a navigational touch pad, sit below a bright 3.5-inch color display. |
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They've navigated their way through narrow channels and around dangerous shoals using the same buoys and other navigational aids. |
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Just recently new lights were installed in the channel making it navigational at night for the first time ever. |
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There is always a good head of water maintained in the navigational channel with a maximum depth approaching 12 ft at low tide. |
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Campers are taught in an underground training center, learning to read navigational maps and to signal with flags and in Morse code. |
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The pure navigational techniques of celestial and dead reckoning should have been superseded at this time by pilotage. |
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Another navigational aid involves the use of mouseovers to highlight the connections between nodes. |
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In the case of a homebuilt yacht built for blue-water cruising, the builder typically buys the engine and the navigational instruments. |
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With few provisions and no navigational equipment on the raft, the situation rapidly deteriorated. |
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My navigational abilities have been thoroughly honed through three years of city living. |
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Vera insists on using her cellphone, wreaking havoc with the plane's navigational equipment. |
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Providing navigational buttons to the site's major sections at the bottom or edge of internal pages helps surfers stay oriented. |
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On the far left side of the page are navigational links to sections of the online paper. |
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The council has redesigned the site, adding new features and enhanced navigational tools. |
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Each one of your pages should support a navigational structure whereby you can access all of your sub pages. |
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The needle on the navigational instrument points directly to it, but you still can't spot the runway through the haze. |
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These breadcrumbs indicate your location in the website's navigational hierarchy. |
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Four anchored dan buoys with radar transponders provided navigational control for the greater part of the survey. |
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But just as dangerous was attempting to land his flying boat in the Sound of Mull without any navigational aids and in complete darkness. |
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Former as well as current places of worship with towers, spires, minarets or domes are also helpful navigational aids. |
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Accumulations of zebra mussels clog municipal water systems, and have even been known to sink navigational buoys by their combined weight alone. |
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The rally will be a real test of endurance, stamina and navigational skills. |
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Magnetite, because of its magnetism, and cordierite, because of its dichroism, were used in ancient times for navigational purposes. |
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When the systems failed, the light aircraft was left without navigational aids, radar, or a radio. |
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Heading pointer or navigational queuing was not displayed in the heads-up display. |
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Modem cruise ships nowadays casually pass close by these perils of the sea, now well marked, and defanged by 21st-century navigational aids. |
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The tactical screen was selected on the device's multipurpose display to assist in navigational orientation. |
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The hexacopter scans the area from the air and then transmits navigational information to the boat. |
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Her current task is to undertake survey work, updating existing charts and navigational resources. |
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In homing pigeons, a bird is considered to have successfully homed when it returns to its home loft-a highly localized navigational goal. |
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Theories about its provenance, navigational failure and hopes of survival were being swapped freely on Battersea Bridge. |
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Plans are being made to commemorate the famous clockmaker who solved a navigational puzzle that had cost countless mariners' lives. |
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Merlin didn't think twice about her ability to pilot the ship and turned his attention to a navigational scanner. |
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Self-paced interactivity on the part of the student will occur through navigational choices in the program. |
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The expiree Robert Sparks was the successful tenderer for the building of two stone navigational obelisks. |
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The fighter escort was informed that we were at our rendezvous point and that we would do a navigational dogleg to allow them to catch up to us. |
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A navigational system pinpoints the train's position in relation to track diagrams. |
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You can make tactical heads-up navigational displays for your vehicles with the push of a button. |
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Another early navigational instrument that relied on the same principles as the quadrant was the mariner's astrolabe. |
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Millburn shows that much of the business, for George Sr. and Jr., was in quadrants and other navigational instruments. |
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Salvagers have taken the ship's propeller, navigational gear from the wheelhouse, and cargo. |
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It has neat navigational aids, polished winches, ropes a-plenty, exciting pump-action loos and a limitless supply of biscuits. |
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There is a serious need for navigational aids within the page. |
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Their preparation and composure was further tested when pelorus repeats, gyros, GPS and even their sight were removed from their repertoire of navigational aids. |
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Several years ago, while anchored out of the channel with the required navigational lights lit, my family and I were almost run down by a party boat dinner cruiser. |
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However, with the development of sophisticated radio beacons and automated electrical lighting, as well as shipboard navigational aids, many lighthouses became redundant. |
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He argued that navigational laws designed to develop a national merchant marine and exclude foreign vessels from coastal trade was economically unsound. |
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Like the other three Coastguard helicopters, the Sligo chopper is equipped with all the latest search and navigational equipment and has an automatic hover capability. |
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Paul's orienteering and navigational skills were key in their escape. |
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The convoy then made several navigational errors, which required the slow, lumbering vehicles to make two U-turns in the middle of hostile territory. |
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Easily accessible in just 8m of water, the wreck has been salvaged and subsequently used for target practice in the 1950s, before being dynamited as a navigational hazard. |
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Sophisticated instruments, which were to make possible the European voyages of discovery, were developed, including the astrolabe, the quadrant and good navigational maps. |
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The cause of the accident was found to have been navigational error. |
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His navigational skill coupled with help from the seas and the direction of the wind that night saved over 4,000 lives. |
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Clever people at the University of Rochester have flipped the typical use of RFID around and created a navigational aid for the visually impaired. |
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I had to build the whole navigational structure again from the ground up. |
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The navigational algorithm is accelerative, which means the longer the user depresses the forward button, the faster the user moves through the environment. |
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There is also JavaScript on the site, notably in some navigational aids. |
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They need only the sun and the stars as their navigational tools. |
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Providing navigational aids to assist users in finding information in hypertext systems has been an ongoing research problem for well over a decade. |
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Magnetic storms can damage power systems and pipelines, whilst the changes in the magnetic field can mislead any navigational systems that use magnetic compasses. |
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The 1930s had seen a rapid development in radio navigational techniques, spurred by the need for airlines to maintain schedules despite changeable weather. |
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Because of Britain's sustained support for achievements in astronomical and navigational measurement, the Royal Observatory Greenwich landed the prime meridian. |
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We lost all navigational and wireless aids and spent the next hour or so seeking out emergency landing strips, but those we located were underwater. |
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During World War II, aviation technology grew faster than navigational instruments could keep up. |
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He also called for the provision of navigational lights along the channel, the removal of some boulders and the provision of marina facilities on both side of the bridge. |
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In navigational applications, RDF signals are provided in the form of radio beacons, the radio version of a lighthouse. |
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For a full list, expand the Rivers of Dartmoor navigational box at the bottom of this page. |
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For a full list, expand the Settlements of Dartmoor navigational box at the bottom of this page. |
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Some navigational canals were recorded by ancient geographers and are still traceable by modern archaeology. |
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The first Act for navigational improvement in England was in 1425, for improvement of the river Lea, a major tributary of the River Thames. |
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Finding all navigational markers missing, they attempted to pick their own way in through the barrier reef. |
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This distracts from cairns used as genuine navigational guides, and also conflicts with the Leave No Trace ethic. |
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Often, the navigation of the collecting boat does not match today's GPS navigational accuracies. |
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Their navigational accuracy is high, with good eyesight an important factor. |
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It used a constellation of five satellites and could provide a navigational fix approximately once per hour. |
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Its lantern tower was added at the request of Trinity House as a navigational aid to passing ships and looks over the town. |
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Electronic navigational systems have made even this simple measure unnecessary. |
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Some recent research indicates whales may use such features as navigational aids throughout their migration. |
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The disappearance is attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft running out of fuel. |
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But the complex routes of ocean cruises rendered the association of navigational data with magnetometer readings difficult. |
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There is also an increasing use of GPS driven navigational systems in wealthier countries. |
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During the treasure voyages, the crew acquired and collected a large amount of navigational data. |
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The general mass of navigational data were processed into different kind of charts by a cartographic office. |
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This provided the expeditionary commanders with the necessary navigational charts for their voyages. |
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Additional navigational data were probably also supplied by local maritime pilots, Arab records, Indian records, and earlier Chinese records. |
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Portolan or portulan charts are navigational maps based on compass directions and estimated distances observed by the pilots at sea. |
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Apart from navigational compasses, other specialty compasses have also been designed to accommodate specific uses. |
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All navigational techniques involve locating the navigator's position compared to known locations or patterns. |
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Celestial navigation systems are based on observation of the positions of the Sun, Moon, Planets and navigational stars. |
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Arab navigational tools like the astrolabe and quadrant were used for celestial navigation. |
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The publication of the navigational routes enabled the passage to the East Indies to be opened to trading by the Dutch, French and the English. |
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Apart from maps, he published journals and navigational guides and developed a new method for determining longitude. |
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He had no prior nautical or navigational experience and it was hoped he would transition into naval life with the same aplomb he showed on land. |
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Many of them are old navigational aids, needed because of the remoteness of the moorland and its typically bad weather. |
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These include cautery devices, ligament balancers, navigational tools, reinfusion devices, and pulse lavage for example. |
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I have no idea how Justin accomplished that navigational marvel. |
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Unlike many other Cuban natural harbors, the Bay of Pigs is easily accessible day or night without navigational aids. |
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For instance, we refer the reader to Freiesleben which deals with geometric construction of hyperbolae on a spherical surface for navigational application. |
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Recent research showed that a more treelike or hierarchical text structure limits navigational difficulties as compared to a p urely heterarchical structure. |
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The C model is an advanced IFR trainer with additional navigational aids, such as dual attitude gyros, heading indicators, VOR, TACAN, ADF, ILS, and GPS systems. |
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Boston Globe technology reporter Hiawatha Bray chronicles the evolution of navigational and mapmaking tools and how they have shaped modern society. |
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The Met Office discovered the helicopters act as a conductor for the lightning, which can knock out instrument panels, heat up components and magnetise navigational equipment. |
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The ANS program will provide navigational, perception, path-planning and vehicle-following algorithms and the requisite on-board sensor package for autonomous mobility. |
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Passing the doldrums was a navigational challenge, and pilots had to avail themselves deftly of the currents and every little breeze they could get to stay on course. |
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He made great contributions to European knowledge of the area, and his more accurate navigational charting of large areas of the ocean was a major achievement. |
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The navigational information his smartphone provided was not always accurate, and at times he would accidentally 'pocket dial' participants at inappropriate hours. |
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When the vessel to be returned to service is commercial, the salvage operation is typically driven by its commercial value and impact on navigational waterways. |
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These women were accepted by the crew due to their management ability, navigational skills, and by their continued perseverance to outperform the rest of the crew. |
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Some seamounts have not been mapped and thus pose a navigational danger. |
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The navigational assistance service is especially important in difficult navigational or meteorological circumstances or in case of defects or deficiencies. |
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It will consist of a constellation of 7 navigational satellites. |
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The foreword by HRH the Duke of York leads in to the opening chapters, which look at how navigation and navigational tools, celestial navigation, and surveying developed. |
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