Experiences of Boeing Air Transport and Pacific Air Transport in night flying are discussed; lighting of transcontinental air-mail route between New York and San Francisco; combination of regular and emergency landing fields and lights give transcontinental night flier 887 individual lighted aids to air navigation; radio-telephone communication between pilot and ground perfected by Boeing engineers in conjunction with Department of Commerce; directive radio beacon. Abstract of paper before Am. Soc. Mech. Engrs.


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    Title :

    Night-flying mail and passengers


    Additional title:

    Airway Age


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Airway Age ; 10 , n 6


    Publication date :

    1929


    Size :

    3 pages


    Remarks:

    4 Figs.


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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