The radio-telephone used on airplanes

Titolo: The radio-telephone used on airplanes
Oggetto: en Technology; en Communication
Article Title and/or Image Caption: The Ears of the Airplane
extracted text: WHEN the radio-telephone, adapted for airplane uses, was
added to the other war-born marvels, the question of how |
to rig the aerials was a bothersome one. At first a long, single
cable was tried out. It was kept from fly-
ing up and entangling itself in the machine
by a heavy weight, and swung 300 feet
or 50 below the airplane.

These long dangling cables were a men-
ace to machines flying in formation. They
were raised and lowered by a reel attached
to the side of the airplane within easy reach
of the pilot's hand. The more recent prac-
tice is to suspend short, weighted wires from
the wing-tips or, in some cases, to arrange
the aerials between the wings.
Lingua: eng
Copertura temporale: Interwar period
Data di rilascio: 1919-07
pagine: 35
Diritti: Public domain (Google digitized)
Sorgente: Google Books
Archived by: Davide Donà; Marco Bortolami (editor)
Copertura territoriale: United States of America