WIZARD’S TOWER
MARVELS OF CROYDON CONTROL OF AIR TRAFFIC By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Thursday. A veritable wizard’s tower is near ing completion at Croydon Airdrome It will make London the foremost aiterminal in the world. From it three men, an Air Ministr; traffic officer, a wireless operator am a meteorologist will exercise day am night control over the air expresses when they are flying hundreds of mile: away. They will even sleep in tb« tower. A perfected wireless system will tel the pilots their whereabouts, and w.L guide them to Croydon in face of th* blackest fogs. A sensitive indicator prints a visible record of the slightes. fluctuations in the wind. The airdrome will have illuminated signs t» flash messages to the pilots waiting t* take off for Europe to tell them whet it is permissible to rise. The switches control a wouderfu system of lighting the landing ground below. The booking clerks will issu, tickets for places as far distant ai Copenhagen, Moscow, Constantinople and Northern Africa. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 1
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173WIZARD’S TOWER Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 1
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