Eli5: Navigating a ‘plane at sea

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In the days before GPS, how did planes find their way back to their aircraft carrier, especially since the carrier would not be where it was when they took off?

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Not exactly your question, but passenger and cargo planes used celestial navigation at sea up until around the 1960s. Some of the earliest 747s had a sextant port built in.

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