TELEVISION FROM AIR
EQUIPMENT IN PLANES USE IN ATOMIC TESTS (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 22. The Navy demonstrated new airborne television equipment to be used by official observers at the atomic bomb tests at Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands. A demonstration was held at Anacosta naval air station. It involved three aircraft, one of which carried two flexible pick-up cameras known by the code name of “ring.” The others carried fixed cameras in the noses. The latter system is called “block.” The television planes flew over Washington. Baltimore and Annapolis for one hour televising scenes .to screens in New York and Washington.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21978, 23 March 1946, Page 6
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103TELEVISION FROM AIR Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21978, 23 March 1946, Page 6
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