SAFETY AT SEA

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2400, 9 April 1931, Page 6

SAFETY AT SEA

ITT I RE IST OF WIRELESS AVOIDING COLLISIONS PILOTLESS BOMBING PLANES MARCONI’S EXPERIMENTS (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London, xYprii 7. Senator Marconi, interviewed here, raid that, wireless two yearn lienee would make the world very small. He envisaged squadrons of bombing planes being sent out without pilots,** “I am actively engaged in shortwave length experiments, one application of which will make collisions at sea more difficult,’’ lie said. “Ships will lie able to place a wireless hand round themselves, making their itositlon- immediately known to olhers entering the band. “If tlte aircraft-carrier ‘Glorious and the French liner Florida lia.l been fitted thus the disaster in the Mediterranean would not have occurred.”