PILOT DEVICE DEVELOPED
No Interference Possible (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts), April 19. Scientists unveiled a secretlydeveloped invention yesterday which they said promised to guide any kind of craft—aircraft, missile, ship, or submarine—free from foreign interference, to any chosen spot on earth. “Inertial guidance,” as it is called by the men who developed it at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has already flown a B-29 bomber from Boston to Los Angeles. Operating without magnetic compass, radio, or radar, without a glimpse of earth, sun or stars, inertial guidance was said by 'he scientists to need no electronic signal or radar beam—and therefore could not be “jammed” by apparatus in the hands of an enemy.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28258, 22 April 1957, Page 14
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