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Pilot Jones, shrouded in whirling clouds, bucked the wind until he thought he was over Camden, then turned back to Newark. He missed Newark, missed New York, missed everything except a National Biscuit sign which flashed up once through the gloom, until he picked out an airway beacon...
...outside and see if you can hear an airplane anywhere over your home." Promptly from five States came 227 calls reporting the plane. Once the lost ship was said to be circling Manager Rickenbacker's house in Bronxville, N. Y. When Pilot Jones at last picked up a beacon, one & all cursed with relief, identified it from its flash as the one at New Britain, Conn., 82 miles north of Newark, directed Jones to the nearby East Hartford Airport...
...Davies of Washington Institute of Technology, Harry Diamond of the National Bureau of Standards, and the Bureau of Air Commerce radio development chief, W. E. Jackson. It consists of three radio transmitters, one to send a radio course beam, one to send a glide beam, and a radio marker beacon. Beacon, transmitters are housed in an automobile trailer that can be moved to the various runways on the landing field. The marker beacon is installed at the end of the runway...
...cross pointer dial" operated by the reed converter. One needle indicates the course beam, the other the glide beam. Keeping the needles crossed at right angles,* the pilot guides his ship down the beams. As he passes the boundary of the airport at a known altitude the marker beacon signals his position. Whatever the weather, the pilot, eyes only on his instruments, theoretically lands his ship surely and safely on the runway...
Last week Mrs. Vanderlip, widow of the Manhattan banker and a pillar of the Manhattan Swedenborgian church, presided at the Manhattan Swedenborg banquet to which President Roosevelt sent a praiseful telegram. In Boston, Swedenborgians dined in their Church of the New7 Jerusalem on Beacon Hill. In Philadelphia, Episcopalian Joseph Fort Newton spoke at a Swedenborg gathering in the University Club, while in nearby suburban Bryn Athyn, Swedenborgians of the schismatic General Church of the New Jerusalem held a dinner in the assembly hall of their slowly-building cathedral. These Swedenborgians have a bishop-George de Charms-whereas the main body...