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Vintage Pilot Position Plotter Navigational Aid from 1968
Air Aids Co. Position Plotter Type 750, U.S. Patent 3387372
From U.S. Patent office:
On an in-flight lap-held plotting board is placed a navigational map, and upon the map a plotting device including a transparent plastic compass rose having a dished configuration, a linear scale member mounted upon the compass rose for selective rotation relative thereto, and a pin for affixing the compass rose to the plotting rose to the plotting board and map, with the dished configuration being deflected to establish a frictional force between the compass rose and the map for securing the compass rose against movement relative to the map during deliberate rotation of the linear scale member.
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