The Journal of Navigation: Volume 1 -

The Navigational Aspect of Flight Refuelling
D. C. T. Bennett
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18 January 2010, pp. 85-86
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British south american airways have recently been carrying out a series of tests on flight refuelling. The first of these tests took place over southern England and were carried out on a scheduled basis at various heights both by day and by night and all proved successful—with the exception of two which were cancelled on account of bad weather, that is, bad weather on the ground and not in the air. The second part of the series has now taken place and consisted of London-Bermuda-London return nights on a weekly basis for a period of three months.
The process of flight refuelling does not in fact involve any particular navigational problem, but rather the simple problem of ‘approach’. The aircraft admittedly must intercept, but thanks to the fact that various devices are used for the actual approach of one aircraft to the other the navigational accuracy required for the interception is not at the moment of a very high order.

Navigation in Automatic Flight
H. E. C. Boxer
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18 January 2010, pp. 87-88
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At 2215 hours GMT on 21 September 1947 the U.S.A.A.F. All-Weather Flying Centre's Automatic C54 took off automatically from Stephenville, Newfoundland, and twelve hours and five minutes later landed at Brize Norton, England. Neither pilot nor navigator had interfered with the automatic equipment during the entire flight. What, briefly, is the navigation equipment and procedure employed on such a flight?
Equipment. The navigation equipment consists of three magnetic heading selectors, two air log units or AMUS and a radio compass which will automatically switch to a number of preselected frequencies.

The Journal of Navigation