Display Status:

This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.

Collection Item Summary:

A navigator of U.S. Navy Airship Squadron 24 (ZP-24) blimp K-28 plots a course during a mission. Caption - "'Course Zero Five Eight' - Accuracy pays big dividends here". Page 11 from the booklet "An Operational Flight ZP-24"

Collection Item Long Description:

Topic

  • Aeronautics, Military
  • Airplanes - Radio equipment
  • Military airships
  • Naval aviation
  • Navigation (Aeronautics)
  • United States, Navy
  • World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum Archives

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photographer

United States Navy

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Date

Circa 1943

Repository Loc.

National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560

Type

Photographs

Local number

NASM-SI-2000-3755