TELEPHONES FOR AIRMEN

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 87, 14 April 1920, Page 2

TELEPHONES FOR AIRMEN

SUCCESSFUL TRIALS.

LONDON, March 26. Captain Whateley, R.A.F., in ■ a special Daily Mail machine, flew today from Cricklewood over Clielmsford, to test the new Marconi invention of the wireless telephone for use between aeroplane and aeroplane, or bewecn aeroplane and aerodrome. Captain Whateley describes the experience as a great success. "The wind was so bad," he says, "that experts were dubious about the ascent over Enfield. I telephoned down, asking Chelmsford where I, yaSr Immediately I received an accurate reply. I first heard a scratching sound, like a uivU glT.ft'Wphone needle, and then with extraordinary clarity a voice, as if # the speaker was just behind me, said:— 'Hullo, Handley Page, phelmsford gporJcing. You're now two miles enst of Bishop's Stortford. Is it windyf ' "1 tumedlately telephoned in reply 'Hullo, Chelmsford, Daily Mail speaking. It is very wind y>l> but VOlir inossastes are quite clear, > ' Captain Whateley tluis fiscortaiued his position five tir,\e3. The invention has a working range of. frfom 200 to 300 miles, with a nornVa\ fl>Wpowcr station. In future, it will be possible to telephone to aiid from the air through any fcxelmii&e.