Moss ' navigator in the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR # 722 ( indicating the time of the start ) was journalist Denis Jenkinson.

Similar to his teammates, Moss and his navigator, motor race journalist Denis Jenkinson, ran a total of six reconnaissance laps beforehand, enabling " Jenks " to make course notes ( pace notes ) on a scroll of paper long that he read from and gave directions to Moss during the race by a coded system of hand signals.

In keeping with its intended aviation role, Howland Island became a scheduled refueling stop for American pilot Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan on their round-the-world flight in 1937.

Hernando de Alarcón, a Spanish navigator of the 16th century, noted for having led an early expedition to the Baja California peninsula, meant to be coordinated with Francisco Vasquéz de Coronado's overland expedition, and for penetrating the lower Colorado River, perhaps as far as the modern California-Arizona boundary.

However, it has been argued that anti-Semitic themes continued, especially in the depiction of Tintin's enemy Rastapopoulos in the post-war Flight 714, though other writers argue against this, pointing out the way that Rastapopoulos surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine ( or u-boat ) commander of The Red Sea Sharks ; Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official, and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

His preference was for navigator rather than pilot, for which he underwent extensive training in Canada, to qualify as an Air Navigator with the rank of Sergeant in 1944.

Picard, Worf, and the ship's navigator, Lieutenant Hawk, stop the Borg from calling reinforcements with the deflector dish, but Hawk is assimilated.

An SGI Crimson system with the fsn three-dimensional file system navigator appeared in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park.

In 1951-53 he served in the Royal Air Force as a pilot-officer navigator and in 1963 he graduated from the University of Leeds with a double honours degree in psychology and sociology.

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

* June 14 – 15 – A Vickers Vimy piloted by John Alcock DSC with navigator Arthur Whitten Brown makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.

In M. John Harrison's novel Light, the character Ed Chianese, while trying to get a job with the Circus of Pathet Lao, claims that he " rode navigator on Alcubierre ships.

The navigator James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, without conducting negotiations with the existing inhabitants.

In conjunction with the fair, Chicago's Italian-American community raised funds and donated the statue of the Genoese navigator and explorer, Christopher Columbus ( Grant Park ).

The navigator was received with traditional hospitality, including a grand procession of at least 3, 000 armed Nairs, but an interview with the Zamorin failed to produce any concrete results.

These stories have many parallels with those of Saint Brendan the navigator, Saint Maclovius of Wales, and the stories of the Irish immrama.

On the northern bank of Espírito Santo Estuary of Delagoa Bay, an inlet of the Indian Ocean, Lourenço Marques was named after the Portuguese navigator who, with a companion ( António Caldeira ), was sent in 1544 by the governor of Mozambique on a voyage of exploration.

In August 1937, as navigator under pilot and commander Caleb V. Haynes on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, he helped locate the battleship Utah despite being given the wrong coordinates by Navy personnel, in exercises held in misty conditions off California, after which the group of B-17s bombed it with water bombs.

Roberval was to lead the expedition, with Cartier as his chief navigator.

Faced with what amounted to a mutiny by his navigator, White appears to have backed down and acquiesced in this sudden change of plan.

The Command Module Pilot and navigator, Michael Collins, had to have back surgery and was replaced by his backup, James Lovell, reuniting Borman with his Gemini 7 crewmate.

Through contacts in the Los Angeles aviation community, Fred Noonan was subsequently chosen as a second navigator because there were significant additional factors which had to be dealt with while using celestial navigation for aircraft.

Tuck moves to the island, along with a male Filipino transvestite navigator and a talking fruit bat.

Having returned to operational duties in 1944 after pestering Bomber Command, 25-year-old Gibson was killed along with his navigator, Sqn Ldr Jim Warwick, on a bombing raid on Rheydt ( nowadays a borough of Mönchengladbach ) operating as a Pathfinder Master Bomber based at RAF Coningsby, when his de Havilland Mosquito XX, KB267, crashed near Steenbergen on 19 September 1944.

When used this way, a navigator will from time to time measure the sun's altitude with a sextant, then compare that with a precalculated altitude based on the exact time and estimated position of the observation.

This book was first printed in 1477 ; it was read critically by Christopher Columbus and a copy with marginal notes by the great navigator may still be seen in the Columbian Library at Seville.

To find the position of a ship or aircraft by celestial navigation, the navigator measures with a sextant the apparent height of a celestial body above the horizon, and notes the time from a marine chronometer.

Navvy is a shorter form of navigator ( UK ) or navigational engineer ( USA ) and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects.

* A node-navigator interface, which takes the form of an API between the node and the navigator.

All were fitted with an artificial horizon in the form of a bubble, which was centered to align the horizon for a navigator flying thousands of feet above the earth ; some had recording features.

Navigators cannot interbreed with regular humans due to the recessiveness of the navigator gene, and thus form an endogamous caste.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

A parade and a state banquet completed the independence festivities in the capital, which was expected to be renamed Can Phumo, or " Place of Phumo ", after a Shangaan chief who lived in the area before the Portuguese navigator Lourenço Marques founded the city in 1545 and gave his name to it.

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, another Portuguese navigator sailing for the Spanish Crown, saw a large island south of New Guinea in 1606, which he named La Australia del Espiritu Santo.

In open-road endurance races across Europe such as the Mille Miglia, Tour de France and Targa Florio, which were often run on dusty roads, the need for fenders and a mechanic or navigator was still there.

A parade and a state banquet completed the independence festivities in the capital, which was expected to be renamed Can Phumo, or " Place of Phumo ," after a Shangaan chief who lived in the area before the Portuguese navigator Lourenço Marques first visited the site in 1545 and gave his name to it.

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin wore a Shturmanskie ( a transliteration of Штурманские which actually means “ navigator ’ s ”) wristwatch during his historic first flight into space.

On October 17, 1540, Francis ordered the Breton navigator to return to Canada to lend weight to a colonization project of which he would be " captain general ".

William L. Polhemous, the navigator on Ann Pellegreno's 1967 flight which followed Earhart and Noonan's original flight path, studied navigational tables for July 2, 1937 and thought Noonan may have miscalculated the " single line approach " intended to " hit " Howland.

a navigator, and a seaman, which will be a guarantee for the details of this posthumous publication.

Siri ( software ) ( pronounced / ˈsɪri /) is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator which works as an application for Apple's iOS.

Housed in a high building, it featured a cockpit which accommodated a whole bomber crew ( pilot, navigator and bombardier ).

Fixed to a dome above the cockpit was an arrangement of lights, some collimated, simulating constellations from which the navigator determined the plane's position.

The Lorenz system indicated the centreline of the two signals through the audio pattern, which was listened to by the navigator.

He is tutored in French by a penniless French émigré and has an aptitude for mathematics, which serves him well as a navigator.

* Night Maze-Players are taken to a large hedge maze at night and split into groups, which each have a runner and a navigator.

By 1455, the Venezian navigator, Luís de Cadamosto, on visiting Madeira, referred to the excellence of the Madeirense wines, principally the Malvasia castes from the island of Crete, which were being exported in greater numbers.

Aircraft flights, in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau.

In 1998, Colonel William Molett, an experienced navigator published “ Due north ?” Molett maintained that Rawlins had put too much significance in erased navigational calculations which can be explained by any number of other reasons, including favorable windspeeds as well as simple human error due to lack of sleep and stress.

In the face of defeat and imminent withdrawal of the Invincible, Rohan, the spaceship's navigator, undertakes a trip into the ' enemy area ' in search of 4 crew members who went missing in action — an attempt which he and captain Horpach see as certainly futile, but necessary for moral reasons.

A relative bearing is one in which the reference direction is straight ahead, where the bearing is measured relative to the direction the navigator is facing ( on land ) or in relation to the vessel's bow ( aboard ship ).

A navigator on watch does not always have a corrected compass available with which to give an accurate bearing.