SWING MUSIC

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 309, 15 December 1936, Page 3

SWING MUSIC

CTWE FOR PLANES CHINA OLIPPEB SERVICE. WATER REFLECTS BEAMS. san Francisco, oct. 21. Swing music arid a thir.ty-foot deep cushion set -up by phenomenon of Writer reflected gadio 'beams can bring Dhteri (QUppear passengers safely th’roftflb .any Xog the (Solden Gate of Sari Francisco can offer. • 'The giant seaplane’s crew can predirt ite- arrival in San Francisco withjn dive .minutes. • The swing music, .broadcast from San Francisco radio stations —or perhaps a San Francisco atoateur trying his voice for the first time on the air—is one the oafety measures used by -PanAmerican Airways in the operation M ft® jeia»t boat. “Tan- America? Airways does (not use' the <Tnited ‘States Department of ■Commerce radio beams, ds overland companies do. They-use a developed ip the Caribbean experimental laboratory fox pecan >flyjflg. The .overland system is simply a system of radio heaps that meet at 4 radio -tower close to the airport which is the aeroplane’s destination. There beams radiate in four direca*d territory between radiations is. known by a signifying letter “N** or “A.” Intensity of "these beams will acquaint him with ttee flppnwdtnate distance of his hanging volume will 1 4s approaching the .away from it. ' ■ • BEAMS WEAK. s are weak, good foe -®n 60 and 100 miles, r.’ be more than 1000 n Any station on its xarn Hawaii to Ban . ;the Clipper has its . em system, good for several thou•TJe approach to shore de aomewhat different for the Clipper from that of iMwttend ’planes. The latteller the beam -ia until they itafc af* t°th t* WXd fiEd Copper crew has a choice of 4®BT riUinber .of radio waves. Somclime/ it is -their own station at Ala.Francisco Bey, writ ranger .ata’ ♦te", f frequently it i a a San Francisco • eta*ion sending out I wuste, tenors^. crooners, oia- . mireeltenepup-items. aajm *L a ßP rwh MteZ drop from fret JeVeL to about 3000 feet. Then there is -work to be done. Glidis set ,<BO the ’plane' drops * f a minute. The navigator -Wls the . minutes. For instance, seven minutes means that .the pilot yWMW.feef between the bay and .1 _?2Jj Mtom of his craft. His sensitW jrßwrter teßs him the same intPWriion. The pilot is given the i 7 ” izonea an< i> no matter how flenre the fog, the pilot knows just exactly ’where his ship is to touch water. At 30 feet above the surface he finds his radio is- suddenly distorted ’ by the reflexions phenomenon and he afadf, taxies to the base, and his job