line of position

noun

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1. a line connecting all the possible positions of a ship or aircraft, as determined by a single observation. : LOP

Example Sentences

His intrigue started with Earhart’s last reported “line of position,” which eventually runs past Nikumaroro.

From Washington Times

The Pennsylvania-based Tighar’s idea is that they then ran south on a navigational line of position and hit Nikumaroro, then known as Gardner Island.

From Forbes

A series of increasingly distressed messages continued for another hour and a quarter before Earhart, in a distraught voice, gave her location: “We are on the line of position 157 dash 337. . We are now running north and south.”

From Washington Times

“The key to it is her final message, where she says ‘line of position 157 dash 337,’” Gillespie said.

From Washington Times

So they used a method that they had learned, whereby their position could be judged by means of taking the altitude of the sun and laying down the line of position on a sort of graph.

From Project Gutenberg