Word: runways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
Touted enthusiastically by sponsors and press as the "greatest," "biggest" airport, New York City's new terminus lags far behind Boise's (Idaho) 8,800-ft. runway; Berlin's 14-minute convenience from Templehof to downtown and London's new Lullingstone Airport's area-700 acres. But none of these has New York's seaplane facilities which might swell the total of all air passengers into New York to 1,000,000 a year instead of the 300,000 that now pass through Newark. Referring to North Beach Airport's completion-its start...
...Beach has been an Eastern Air stop only since May but Captain Dietz was completely familiar with the field. Presently, with co-pilot beside him, steward and six passengers strapped in their seats in the cabin, Captain Dietz taxied to the northern end of the 3,700-ft. NW/SE runway, gave his two motors a final revving, hurtled into the air in what was apparently a normal takeoff...
...Commerce. The letter demanded that the Washington Airport be designated a "two-way" field, which would reduce it to the emergency or auxiliary class. The pilots declared that after 60 days they would not land heavy, high-speed planes unless the wind were favorable for using the long runway, and that they were "seriously considering" a refusal to use the field under any circumstances...