Flying in Fog

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 46, 31 May 1929, Page 15

Flying in Fog

Use of Direction-Finding Instruments "THE use of wireless direction-finding for navigation on the airways has become so much a part of the normal organisation that it hardly excites notice to-day except when some notable achievement brings it to public attention. Such an instance occurred on March 26 when the Prince of Wales flew from France to England. There was a dense fog over the Channel. but so experienced are the airways pilots in making the journey in fog, with the aid of the Marconi wireless directionfinder, that there was no hesitation in making the trip with the Prince. Describing the flight in an interview with a London newspaper. Captain O. P, "Jones, of Imperial Airways, who was the pilot, said :- "There was nothing but the floor of cloud-tops beneath us from half-an-hour after leaving Le Bourget until we arrived at Croydon, but . With a multiple engine machine and wireless direction-find-ing. the risk of having to make a forced landing is negligible." — The London air port and all Imperial Airways passenger machines are equipped with Marconi wireless apparatus. It is also used in over 30 other countries.