RADAR FOR SAFETY
SHIPPING AND AIRCRAFT
Rec. 11.30 a.m,
LONDON, August 31,
The days would soon come when all ships of all nations would be fitted with radar and when delays due to fog and such perils as icebergs would be eliminated, said the President of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, in an address to the Radio Industry Council. Radar would also be applied to all civil aircraft, including private-ly-owned planes. The radar would give the airliner the particular track on which to come into its airport and would be guided along that track all the way in. If, over the airport, the weather was so bad that the pilot was unable to see the runway, a special blind-landing installation would enable him to guide the aircraft on to the runway automatically. "The crossing of the Alps or the Atlantic by air will be robbed of its special dangers," he said. "Indeed, should the worst happen and we find ourselves in the drink, we shall have a radar responder in our rubber dinghy so that rescue aircraft can locate us immediately."
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 54, 1 September 1945, Page 8
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