Harold Gatty

Harold Gatty ( born January 5, 1903 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, † August 30 1957 in Fiji) was an Australian navigator, inventor and aviation pioneer. Charles Lindbergh called him the " Prince of Navigators ."

In 1917, he began his career with the Royal Australian Naval College. After the First World War he served on several ships and operating a business in Sydney Harbor 1927 until he emigrated to the USA.

In California, he founded a school of navigation for sailors. In 1928 he extended this to air navigation.

In 1931, he served as a navigator Wiley Post during his record flight around the earth.

In 1934 he founded with Donald Wills Douglas, the South Seas Commercial Company to provide air services for the islands in the South Pacific. The company was soon sold to Pan Am.

After the Second World War, he went with his second, Dutch-born woman to Fiji and Fiji Airways founded in 1951, which later became Air Pacific.

Works

• The Raft Book
• Nature Is Your Guide
• Finding Your Way Without Map Or Compass ( Online)

• Man
• Born in 1903
• Died in 1957
• Inventor
• Australian