Brett
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But it's kind of wild that they're just like, you could also create a little havoc.
I know.
Exactly.
But it was really cool because they're navigators.
They had like this table and it just had a digital map on it.
Right.
And it looked like your Google Maps in your car.
Like they're flying the plane like right along the line.
Right.
Heading wherever they were going.
Anyways.
Well, they didn't have that back in 1945.
and they had to navigate based on something called dead reckoning which sounds way creepier than it is dead reckoning right but basically it's knowing where you are based on where you've been so if you know you're leaving from fort lauderdale and you know you're going at 91 degrees so you need a compass which tells you where are you going
It going 91 degrees.
And, you know, you went in that direction for a certain amount of time.
Right.
Like an hour.
And, you know, your speed and, you know, the wind speed and you have a map, you can figure out exactly where you are.
And then when you turn north and you do the same thing for a certain period of time.
You should know exactly where you are, even though there are no landmarks.