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AIR LINER AND EXPRESS TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION I Britiah Official Wireless. ] Received May 22, 5.15 p.m. RUGBY, May 21. Telephonic communication was established to-day between the Imperial Airways liner Heracles, which was) on a journey to Glasgow, and the famous flying Scotsman of the London North Eastern Railway. The train was proceeding at a speed approaching 90 miles hourly during its wireless telephonic contact with the air liner, which swooped down from 3500 feet and circled round the Flying Scotsman while the messages were exchanged. SECRETIVE BEAM LIGHT A MERICAN EXPERIMENT (San Francisco Press Broadcast) SCHENECTADY, N.Y., May 19. The dirigible Los Angeles whispered down a beam of light to the groun I what she saw from the air as sh r cruised over this city to-night. The experiment witn this new score tive system of communication was con ducted by officers of the Navy dirigible and engineers of the General Electri*' laboratories. The voices from the air, fading occasionally as the ray of light, projected from the Los Angele** swerved from the mirror picking it up. were broadeast by radio. Experimenters said such comniunica tion offered a means of reporting aer ial observations to the ground without the danger of pick-up by an enemy.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 119, 23 May 1932, Page 7
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