AIR DEVELOPMENT
LAUNCHING OF DIRIGIBLES KECK BEACON EXPEBMENTS (British Official News.) Fra* Association—By Wireless—Copyright RUGBY, February 9. (Received February 10, at 12.30 p.m.) The Secretary for Air was asked in the House of Commons whether he could give definite dates for the launching of the airships RIOO and 11101. He said that he hoped that both these airships would be flying before the end of the year. The RIOO would bo flying before the end of the summer. Replying to another question, Sir Samuel Hoare said that experiments in the United States with a neon gas beacon for the purpose of emitting rays which penetrate fog for the guidance of aircraft were being closely watched by the Air Ministry. The neon beacon was, in fact, in regular use as a part of the landing system at Croydon. It was installed as long ago as 1924, and was the first beacon of its kind to be used for aviation.
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Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 4
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158AIR DEVELOPMENT Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 4
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