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...pilot enough. What they did was provide four "beams," which he could follow from range to range or to a field. But the beams were far apart, and finding them was a hard and time-consuming job. Furthermore, the ranges used low-frequency radio, and in stormy weather static made a hash of their signals, just when they were needed most...
...Needles. Omnirange uses "very high frequency," is static-free. It is complicated electronically, but it makes things simple for the pilot. Each omni sends out a radio signal that is different for each direction from the station. Receiving apparatus on the airplane detects the variation in the signal, and so tells the pilot where he is in relation to the station...
...plot closes in inexorably, always pointing up the tantalizing question of just how & when Peck will die. By concentrating the action largely in one place and within a few hours, Director Henry King gets considerable tension while generally avoiding the risk that things may get somewhat static for a movie...
...next two days, an armada of boats and planes scouted his bearing and the general path the DC-4 should have taken. Storm static scrambled radio contact between the search parties; mist and night fog hampered visibility. But toward the end of the second day, not far from the Navy captain's fix, the Coast Guard came on an oil slick and scraps of tangled metal. Close by floated a piece of blue blanket bearing the stencil "N.W." and bits of human bodies-all that remained of U.S. commercial aviation's worst air disaster...
...Boatings Static...