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Pilot Kinney swung his plane into a wide counterclockwise turn, simultaneously switched his radio to a different frequency. Presently his earphones and instrument dial picked up beacon signals again. These came from the runway beacon, which is simply a miniature of the big airway beacon. They told him he was headed straight for the length of the run-way.* Here the ingenious ''landing beam" began to work. Crossing the vertical needle on the beacon dial is a horizontal needle which swings up & down. If the plane is too high for its proper glide the needle swings...
...south face is carved a rugged suggestion of swept-back wings. A revolving beacon surmounts the shaft. For the present at least, the beacon will be more of a landmark to mariners than to airmen. The nearest airport is army's Langley Field, 80 mi. north. The nearest airway passes some 200 mi. to the west...
...Time" in November. Congratulations to CBS's President Paley for his splendid cooperation in bringing it to us in time to get the real political facts of the campaign. Two progressive and aggressive organizations, TIME and CBS. joined together to give the radio public the best of all airway features My thanks to TIME. Our family will be present at the loudspeaker on September o at 8:30 p. m. and we will be "all ears." But-why stop in March...
...kill the notion that flying is still an erratic member of the transportation family, airway operators have turned from merely peddling tickets to selling fast, complete transportation facilities combining air, rail & bus. Slogans have been softened from "Fly" to "Travel By Air." Having learned that over two-thirds of their passengers are executives or salesmen, traffic departments are out to educate U. S. business to save time & money through the use of coordinated air transport. Skylines, one of the industry's useful timetable monthlies, quoted last month from the experience of a roving executive who cut a trip from...
Unwanted by U. S. airway operators because of costly upkeep and a 30% tariff should they buy her, DO-X has no job waiting in Europe. An expensive experiment, she served as a model for her sister ships, DO-X II & III, younger but just as big. They fly for Il Duce's subsidized transport company, Aeroitaliano, will probably lug passengers between Genoa and Britain's Gibraltar...