TALKING WITH AIRMEN.
TELEPHONE DEVELOPMENT. WORK OVErToNG DISTANCE. London, Jan. 7. A little room on top of the Air Ministry's buildings in Kingsway is now the centre of bold experiments in pursuit of the airmen's ideal—constant wireless telephone communication between the air and the earth. Already the room buzzes with telegraph messages from aeroplanes and air stations within a radius of 1500 miles. To-day the experiments went further, and operators talked in natural language with stations in' England and France. The operator said: "Hello, Lympre. The Ministry speaking. Talk t'o us." Soon came the dear reply of a youngster, who, finding it difficult to make conversation, recited one of Canada's war poems. By placing the microphone on the horn of a gramaphone it is possible to entertain a lonely pilot flying 50 miles away with the latest music-hall song. The great objective of the experimenters is to develop the control so that/the ground can tell the air where fogs are and how to avoid them.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1920, Page 6
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165TALKING WITH AIRMEN. Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1920, Page 6
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