The radio-telephone used on airplanes

Title (Dublin Core): The radio-telephone used on airplanes
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Communication
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): The Ears of the Airplane
extracted text (Extract 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.
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): Interwar period
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1919-07
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 1, 1919
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 35
Rights (Dublin Core): Public domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Davide Donà; Marco Bortolami (editor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): United States of America