SAFETY ON EMPIRE AIR ROUTES
ENSURING CONSTANT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION (BRITISH OFFICIAL Wl&SI-SSS.) (Received March 30, 8.36 pan.) RUGBY, March 23. Special provision to ensure tha continuation of wireless communication from aeroplanes stranded after forced landings in remote areas is to be a feature of the big new flying-boats under construction for vise by Imperial Airways qn. Empire routes. The apparatus, which is the result of research by the Marconi Company, includes a small auxiliary petrol engine of very light construction to drive a generator for recharging the battery. The whole outfit, which is a comprehensive wireless unit for ordinary as well as emergency service, weighs only 2351b.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21746, 31 March 1936, Page 11
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