PLANE GUIDED DOWN
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Radio Beam at Croydon • NEWEST SAFETY DEVICE
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LONDON, Au^. 28. The air-liner bringing the Australian mail to England this week used for the lirst timo the new radio beam which has just been installed at Croydon. Croydon is notoriously difficult to lind in bad weather. Now pilots will be guided in by any one of four radio "patha" ovcr the middle of the air port. Whcn they tun in to one of tho four beams they will hear a steady hum 011 their radio. If a pilot gocs to tho left of his path he will hoar a serles of dots; dashcs will tcll him if ho is too far to the right. Noise of tho hum increasos as he gets nearer Croydon. When it starts i'ading it means he has passed over the airport. Tho four radio "paths" radiate from Croydon like wheel spokes. Pilots get on to the spoke most convenient to their own route after getting radioed permission from the control tower. The costly radio apparatus working the beam has been installed by the Air Ministry.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 5
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