INTRODUCTIONTHE THEORY BEHIND THE OPERATION OF HYPERBOLIC Navigation SYSTEMS WAS KNOWN IN THE LATE 1930’S, BUT IT TOOK THE URGENCY OF WORLD WAR II TO SPEED DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM INTO PRACTICAL USE. BY EARLY 1942, THE BRITISH HAD AN OPERATING HYPERBOLIC SYSTEM IN USE DESIGNED TO AID IN LONG-RANGE BOMBER Navigation. BY 1943, THE U. S. COAST GUARD WAS OPERATING A CHAIN OF HYPERBOLIC Navigation TRANSMITTERS THAT BECAME LORAN-A (THE TERM LORAN WAS ORIGINALLY AN ACRONYM FOR LONG RANGE Navigation). BY THE END OF THE WAR, THE NETWORK CONSISTED OF OVER 70 TRANSMITTERS…