FLYING AT NIGHT
FLOODLIGHTS GUIDE PILOTS ON INDIA ROUTE NEW SERVICE PLANNED LONDON, March 20. Preparation is being made tor a night-flying service to India, tor which five airdromes in Eastern Persia are being equipped with floodlights. periments are now being made in alighting on the water at night time by supermarine Napier flying boats. Various methods have been tried to assist the pilot to calculate the height above the water before alighting. The most satisfactory so far are small searchlights on the wings with their beams crossing at a known distance below the flying boat. When the junction of the beams shines on the water the pilot knows the exact height.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 932, 27 March 1930, Page 9
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112FLYING AT NIGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 932, 27 March 1930, Page 9
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