FLYING BLIND
VISION CUT OFF IN TEST NEW YORK, April 3. Hooded by a curtain which completely cut off vision, Janies L. Kinney, pilot for the Division of Aeronautics of the Department of Commerce, set a biplane down, smoothly at Newark Airport in the first public demonstration of a completely ‘’blind” landing. Accompanied by Colonel Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, Mr. Kinney twice came to the landing field from a distance of five miles. The course to the borders of the field was followed by means of the regular radio beacon, a device which has been in use for a number of months. Near the borders of the airport the ship, which had been flying “on course” by means of the old apparatus, picked up the signals of the “curved beam” of the new equipment. These signals, in the form of visual pointers of an indicator in the instrument panel of the plane, marked the proper gliding angle for the plane to land surely and with safety although the pilot was completely “blind” so far as being able to see anything outside the cabin of the ship.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18089, 16 May 1933, Page 7
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