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===Gee=== {{main|Gee (navigation)}} The first hyperbolic system to be developed was the British [[Gee (navigation)|Gee]] system, developed during [[World War II]]. Gee used a series of transmitters sending out precisely timed signals, with the signals leaving the stations at fixed delays. An aircraft using Gee, [[RAF Bomber Command]]'s heavy [[bomber]]s, examined the time of arrival on an [[oscilloscope]] at the navigator's station. If the signal from two stations arrived at the same time, the aircraft must be an equal distance from both transmitters, allowing the navigator to determine a line of position on his chart of all the positions at that distance from both stations. More typically, the signal from one station would be received earlier than the other. The ''difference'' in timing between the two signals would reveal them to be along a curve of possible locations. By making similar measurements with other stations, additional lines of position can be produced, leading to a fix. Gee was accurate to about 165 yards (150 m) at short ranges, and up to a mile (1.6 km) at longer ranges over Germany. Gee remained in use long after World War II, and equipped RAF aircraft as late as the 1960s (approx freq was by then 68 MHz).{{fact|date=July 2022}}
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