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TIL of the YE-ZB radio navigation equipment. It was used during WW2 by the US Navy aircraft like the hellcat and corsair to find their way home to their aircraft carriers. It worked by emitting morse code the pilot could use to determine course, with intensity corresponding to distance.

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