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    Gee, sometimes written GEE, was a radio-navigation system used by the Royal Air Force during World War II. It measured the time delay between two radio...
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  • Gee-H, sometimes written G-H or GEE-H, was a radio navigation system developed by Britain during the Second World War to aid RAF Bomber Command. The name...
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  • up gee or Gee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gee is the phonetic pronunciation of the letter G. Gee or GEE may also refer to: Gee (surname) Gee (nickname)...
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    navigation systems was the UK's Gee and Decca, followed by the US LORAN and LORAN-C systems. LORAN-C offered accurate navigation at distances over 1,000 kilometres...
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    advanced navigation systems until GPS replaced them in the 1990s.[citation needed] The first hyperbolic system to be developed was the British Gee system...
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    used into World War II. The first hyperbolic radio navigation system was the World War II-era Gee, introduced by the Royal Air Force for use by RAF Bomber...
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    positioned to fly right down the middle of a cell. The introduction of the GEE navigation system allowed the RAF bombers to fly a long, tight, formation in the...
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    chains. Puckeridge DECCA tower Zeven DECCA-transmitter GEE (navigation) Loran-C Omega (navigation system) Local positioning system Datatrak Blanchard 1991...
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    Loran-C (category Radio navigation)
    to adopt Gee, and instead, at the behest of the British team, realigned their efforts to provide long-range navigation on the oceans where Gee was not...
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    Range Navigation) was a hyperbolic radio navigation system developed in the United States during World War II. It was similar to the UK's Gee system...
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    station was built during the Second World War and was used as part of the GEE navigation system (started in March 1942) used to guide bombers to their targets...
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    the same clock, others do not. Ground-based radio navigation is decades old. The DECCA, LORAN, GEE and Omega systems used terrestrial longwave radio transmitters...
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  • first thousand bomber raid on Cologne, and developments such as the GEE navigation system, Pathfinder units and the "Pink Pansy" incendiary bomb. Braddock...
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    The radio communication devices included VHF and HF communications, GEE navigation, and IFF and G.P. devices. The electric generators also powered the...
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    research, to choose Cologne, which was within range for use of the GEE navigation system. This was the first time that the "bomber stream" tactic was...
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  • Butzweilerhof Unknown Unknown Formed from No. 1 (Signals) Wing RAF to control Gee (navigation) and Decca Navigator System chains No. 144 Signals Unit RAF 1951 RAF...
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  • Pseudo-range multilateration (category Radio navigation)
    Navigation System – A worldwide system, technically similar to Decca but providing service for much longer range;, shut down in 1997 Gee (navigation)...
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    (radio navigation) Battle of the Beams CHAYKA GEE (navigation) G-H (navigation) Global positioning system LORAN Oboe (navigation) OMEGA Navigation System...
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    Rebecca/Eureka transponding radar (category Radio navigation)
    only marginally satisfactory. Brown asked why they could not use the Gee navigation system to address this, and when they admitted they had no idea what...
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    beams, and were not useful for general purpose navigation. A more useful system was introduced in the RAF's Gee system, which used two timed signals that allowed...
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  • turning towards Eastern Europe. Belfast Blitz Chain Home GEE, the early war RAF navigation system for night bombing Kammhuber Line List of World War...
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    operational tests of prototypes of the Gee navigation aboard bombers. The loss of a Vickers Wellington equipped with Gee over Germany on August 13 raises fears...
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  • on 8 March 1942, the first electronic navigation of Bomber Command began, with 211 aircraft. The Gee navigation system transmitted from stations at Daventry...
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  • was originally opened as a monitor station on 22 June 1942 for the Gee (navigation) network in the Eastern area. The site was used by the United States...
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    Trebehor Farm. The site later operated GEE (navigation) equipment. Sennen is listed as a location for an Oboe (navigation) site, and the RAF site can be assumed...
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  • The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Consider'd which was first published in London, 1729, and had 20 editions worldwide. Joshua Gee was born in 1667...
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  • combined total of 16 bombers. The raids are the combat debut of the Gee navigation aid, raising British hopes that precision bombing of the Krupp armaments...
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  • landings, RAF bombers soon experienced intensive German jamming of their Gee navigation system. He used his skills to detect the interference signals and through...
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    addition, the 329th Bombardment Squadron conducted trials with the Gee navigation system. Following the RAF's example, Eighth Air Force determined to...
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  • Mandrel and Shiver[citation needed] radar jamming equipment and the Gee navigation aid to perform radar jamming operations during the landings in Normandy...
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