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...Lines transport from Los Angeles was intercepted by radio, requested to find the Corsairs, lead them to Kearny. Pilot Charles F. Sullivan gingerly circled the city, picked up the two Navy ships, signaled with his wing lights dot-dot-dot-dash ("follow me"). Then he followed the radio beacon until he was directly over invisible Lindbergh Field, oriented himself, headed toward Kearny, guided by a radio groundsman who could follow the sound of his motor. All landed safely on the automobile-lit field...
Commercial transport operators puffed with pride over the San Diego incident as a graphic demonstration of advances in what they call "instrument" (rather than ''blind") flight. In addition to radio, both for beacon reception and conversation, the United Air Lines plane was equipped with rate-of-climb indicator, artificial horizon and directional gyro, helpful instruments which the Navy planes lacked...
...alone, Pilot Smith must recover from the spin. He knows from previous experience that what he must do is probably opposite to what his senses tell him. Pilots learn that they cannot "fly by the seat of their pants." On an even keel again he searches for the radio beacon, determines which of the quadrants of the beacon he is in, follows the correct one in until he encounters a small zone of silence. That tells him he is directly over the beacon near the field. That is enough. Completely blind landings are not required. Near perfection after long experiment...
...Dartmouth, all can furnish but dull counter-parts of Harvard, like Harvard preparing grubbing, grubbing, grubbing students with the elements of an education with which to fashion life. But with the Cadets comes a romance more real, more vital, than the round of artificial pleasures offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose, a promise of a definite future, which makes the academic student, preparing himself for a dim and uncertain path, wonder...
Pilots of transport planes work with two kinds of audible radio signals: continuous flashes of the radio beacon marking the course, and occasional spoken words from ground stations. Heretofore a complete receiving set was required for each purpose. Last week after months of work by Radio Engineers F. E. Gray and A. W. Parkes, Eastern Air Transport announced development (with Aircraft Radio Corp.) of a dual coil attachment by which one receiver can do all the work. As installed on E. A. T.'s Condors, the device reduces radio weight from 110 lb. to 80 lb., eliminates $550 worth...