LIBERATOR BOMBERS
AID IN RESCUE OF FLIERS A midget searchlight only as big as a walnut, yet so powerful that it will project a 1500 candle-power beam visible for 60 nautical or about 70 land miles, has been designed by Westinghouse. engineers to aid the rescue of aviators forced down at sea. Packed with rubber life rafts with which all ocean-flying military aircraft now are equipped,, one of the tiny lamps will be worn by each man of a crew, fitting on a band around the head like miners' caps so the crew members may have both hands free to hold on in rough weather. The lamps are wired to a small hand-cranked generator included, in the raft equipment to supply power for radio. They also can be flashed as signal lamps by means of a trigger switch. The lamp, intended as a complement to the raft radios is mounted in a waterproof housing to protect it from damage and contains a single tungsten filament.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 13, 8 October 1943, Page 3
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165LIBERATOR BOMBERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 13, 8 October 1943, Page 3
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