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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Navigation is a difficult task.
It was so difficult that some powers needed a navigator on fighter planes.
There was pen and paper navigation that often led to errors where a navigator would mark the planes track over a journey.
There was also transponder type navigation where a carrier would send out a radar pulse which was used to supply planes with bearing and distance.
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