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In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix, and incorporating estimates of speed, heading (or direction or course), and elapsed time.
Dead Reckoning: Directed by John Cromwell. With Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane. A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.
Dead Reckoning is a 1947 American film noir directed by John Cromwell and starring Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, and William Prince. It was written by Steve Fisher and Oliver H.P. Garrett, based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams and Sidney Biddell, adapted by Allen Rivkin.
Dead reckoning is a type of navigation that involves estimating your speed and course over the ground. Then you can estimate your position along your course at any time based simply on how long you have been flying.
Dead reckoning, determination without the aid of celestial navigation of the position of a ship or aircraft from the record of the courses sailed or flown, the distance made (which can be estimated from velocity), the known starting point, and the known or estimated drift.
With this information, the navigator could calculate the route and distance the ship had covered and mark a sea chart, if he had one. This method was called dead reckoning. It was used by Columbus and most other mariners of the Age of Exploration.
A tough veteran sets out to solve his war buddy's murder.
