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- Astrodome_(aeronautics) abstract "An astrodome is a hemispherical transparent dome fitted in the cabin roof of an aircraft to allow the use of a sextant during astro-navigation.Prior to the introduction of electronic means of navigation the only way to fix an aircraft's position at night was by taking star sights using a sextant in the same manner as that used by marine navigators for hundreds of years on board ships. To do this requires a 360-degree view of the horizon and the astrodome was devised to allow an uninterrupted view of the sky from horizon to horizon.Astrodomes were prominent on many Royal Air Force (RAF) and Commonwealth operated multi-engined aircraft of the Second World War, and on foreign aircraft ordered by them for their use, such as the Liberator and Dakota, as a considerable part of the RAF's operations and other flying were carried out at night.Similar hemispherical-shape domes were also used for sighting remotely-operated gun turrets on World War II heavy bombers - both the Heinkel He 177A, with a single forward dorsal dome to aim its remotely-operated FDL 131 twin MG 131 dorsal turret, and the complex sighting system for the American B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber's quartet of remote gun turrets used such \"astrodome\" enclosures for defensive turret-aiming/firing purposes.".
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) thumbnail Astrodome_On_Warwick.jpg?width=300.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageID "6867743".
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageLength "3058".
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageOutDegree "28".
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageRevisionID "707270851".
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Aircraft.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Boeing_B-29_Superfortress.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Air_navigation.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Aircraft_canopies.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Celestial_navigation.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Consolidated_B-24_Liberator.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Degree_(angle).
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Douglas_C-47_Skytrain.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink File:Astrodome_On_Warwick.jpg.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Gun_turret.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Heinkel_He_177.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Horizon.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink MG_131_machine_gun.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Military_operation.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Navigation.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Radio_navigation.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Air_Force.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Sextant.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Ship.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Short_Sunderland.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Single-Handed_Trans-Atlantic_Race.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Star.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Transparency_and_translucency.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink Éric_Tabarly.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLink File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1972-065-68,_Flugzeug_Heinkel_He_177_A-7.jpg.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Astrodome (aeronautics)".
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLinkText "astrodome".
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageWikiLinkText "rotating".
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Aviation-stub.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refimprove.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) subject Category:Air_navigation.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) subject Category:Aircraft_canopies.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) hypernym Dome.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) type Mountain.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) type Component.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) comment "An astrodome is a hemispherical transparent dome fitted in the cabin roof of an aircraft to allow the use of a sextant during astro-navigation.Prior to the introduction of electronic means of navigation the only way to fix an aircraft's position at night was by taking star sights using a sextant in the same manner as that used by marine navigators for hundreds of years on board ships.".
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) label "Astrodome (aeronautics)".
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) sameAs Q2868572.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) sameAs Astrodôme.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) sameAs m.0gtd73.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) sameAs Q2868572.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) wasDerivedFrom Astrodome_(aeronautics)?oldid=707270851.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) depiction Astrodome_On_Warwick.jpg.
- Astrodome_(aeronautics) isPrimaryTopicOf Astrodome_(aeronautics).