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...BEAM ENDS-Errol Flynn-Longmans, Green...
...most of it for a 44-ft., 50-year-old harbor yacht called the Sirocco. Remorseful, but liking her low, raking lines, he decided to sail her 3,000 miles to New Guinea. All for it were three footloose companions. Setting a distinct highwater mark in personable, salty entertainment, Beam Ends is Errol Flynn's yarn of the voyage that followed...
Presently the weather grew thick. Pilot Lewis radioed ahead for instructions, was told to come in on the Saugus radio beam. Pilot Lewis flew on through a heavy snow storm, gradually "letting down" from 7,000 ft. At 11:05 he radioed: "Coming down to localizer [beam] at field." He was then some ten miles from Burbank and only ten from the spot where a United Airliner smashed fortnight ago with death to twelve (TIME, Jan. 11). At that point he got off the beam, began circling to pick it up. Suddenly, out of the haze loomed a mountain...
...questioned at length, was quoted by rescuers as mumbling: "There were three or four different voices on the radio and I couldn't make out any of them." This became the foundation for a number of bitter attacks on the Bureau of Air Commerce, operators of the radio beam system. Senator Copeland, chairman of the Senate Air Safety Committee, put the whole blame for recent crashes on the Bureau, demanded that it be reorganized, asked for $10,000,000 to improve safety. Other outsiders, such as Columnist Hugh Johnson, screamed violent accusations, suggested equally extravagant remedies. The Weather Bureau...
...what jumbled Pilot Lewis' radio last week. TWA's device is the first to eliminate rain-static, does it with an aluminum covering. Unlike Pan American's system, TWA's requires the pilot to triangulate his own position. The new loop also receives the regular beam, thus gives the pilot a choice of two navigational methods. Offering it free to any airline, TWA cautioned that its new loop is not infallible under all conditions. Any radio, for example, may go dead in the midst of a severe thunder & lightning storm...