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LORAN-C transmitter Lampedusa

The base commander, Lt. Kenneth Armstrong, received notice from U.S. Sixth Fleet Intelligence at La Maddalena that the Libyan fighters had been shot down, and immediately grounded the unarmed logistics flight, which was scheduled to move on to Tel Aviv.


American military technology during World War II

The MIT Radiation Laboratory was formed to develop radar and this led to gun-laying and aircraft radar and the LORAN navigation system.

Arthur McNutt Cochran

At the age of 16, he joined his brother Loran De Wolf in business in Halifax, later setting up in business for himself in Maitland.

CMSF

Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation, administrator for the Loran Award and Garfield Weston Award

Dana, Indiana

Although miles from any major body of water, Dana was home to a Coast Guard LORAN navigation transmitter station until it was closed in 2010.

Gennady Olonkin

From 1958 he worked in conjunction with an expansion of a LORAN station (NATO) on Jan Mayen.

Hafele–Keating experiment

The comparison was conducted by evaluating the arrival times of VHF television synchronization pulses and of a LORAN-C chain.

Loran Whitelock

Loran M. Whitelock is an American botanist who specializes in Cycads, a prehistoric plant that once dominated the planet and is now somewhat rare and endangered.

LRN

LORAN, a terrestrial radio navigation system originally known as LRN for Loomis Radio Navigation

Multilateration

Examples of 2-D multilateration are short wave radio long distance communications through the Earth's atmosphere, acoustic wave propagation in the sound fixing and ranging channel of the oceans and the LORAN navigation system.

National Capital Freenet

NCF was able to count amongst its key partners, providing hardware, software and financial support: Fulcrum Technologies, Ingenia Corporation, Gandalf Canada, Dantek Computers, Ottawa Public Library, Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Hardware Canada Computing, Loran Technologies, Netscape and Carleton University.

Naval Station Sangley Point

The Coast Guard Air Station and the Coast Guard Ship Nettle played a vital role in search-and-rescue operations and in the maintenance of remote long-range aid-to navigation (LORAN) stations located throughout the Philippines.

Rantum

In Rantum there is an emitter of the LORAN {formerly operated by the US COAST GUARD} radio navigation system, using a 193 metre tall lattice tower mast radiator as an antenna.

Time transfer

Examples of a one-way time transfer system are the clock on a church or town building and the ringing of their time-indication bells; time balls, radio clock signals such as LORAN, DCF77 and MSF; and finally the Global Positioning System which uses multiple one-way time transfers from different satellites, with positional information and other advanced means of delay compensations to allow receiver compensation of time and position information in real time.

Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 6

In addition to the ranch, the Point Arguello lighthouse was based there, which has since then been replaced by an off-shore LORAN tracker.


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