Jerauld George Wright

This article is about the Canadian air navigator. For the American admiral, see Jerauld Wright.

Wing Commander Jerauld George Wright (31 August 1917 – 13 September 2016) was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) navigator and prolific inventor of air navigation systems. He is best known for the Position and Heading Indicator (PHI), R-Theta Computer and ANTAC, mechanical computer systems that automatically calculated the positions of key locations with little or no operator input. Many of his inventions were produced for Canadian aircraft by Computing Devices Canada, who got their start in 1949 building the PHI. His inventions were also widely licensed and used in various forms by allied nations. He held a total of thirty patents licensed by the Canadian government.

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