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— — - Amelia Earharts was a few models before this one, perhaps the reason she didnt make it to that small remote Island in the middle of the Pacific, known as Howland Island.To think, before GPS, they had Radar, before Radar, they had Radio Compass units in planes.This Bendix BC-433-G Radio Compass is 70 yrs old, as it was made in 1944.
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Amelia Earhart's was a few models before this one, perhaps the reason she didn't make it to that small remote Island in the middle of the Pacific, known as Howland Island.To think, before GPS, they had Radar, before Radar, they had Radio Compass units in planes.This Bendix BC-433-G Radio Compass is 70 yrs old, as it was made in 1944.

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