Word: mau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MAU (Maximum Airport Utilization). The White method is something like the traffic system used in New York subways...
...basic device of MAU: radio transmitters which shoot thin "fans" of radio energy into the air. They are arranged in pairs so that their fans intersect at a predetermined altitude. Long lines of these intersections form tracks leading down to the airport. The pilot of an approaching plane "latches on" to the end of a track, 40 miles out. Then automatic instruments take over, keep him on the track of intersections until he is practically on the ground. Receiving sets spotted along the track flash lights in the control room, tell ground operators just where the plane...
...LAURA MAU (of Chinese descent...