TO SEE IN THE DARK
' (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, February 3. The “Daily Herald” states that the airman’s “magic bottle,” on which Government radio research experts have been working, is intended to enable pilots flying blind in fog or darkness to see where they are going. The device works in conjunction with a wireless direction-finder, which picks up two broadcasting stations automatically and determines the airman’s position which is then transferred to a Cathoderay tube similar to that used in television. Over this the pilot fits a transparent map of the route on which appears a pinpoint light which is controlled by the direction-finder and represents the aeroplane. It moves across the map and thus, although the countryside is blotted out, the pilot is able safely to shape his course to his destination.
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Northern Advocate, 5 February 1936, Page 5
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133TO SEE IN THE DARK Northern Advocate, 5 February 1936, Page 5
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