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FOR many years past the application of wireless communication as an aid to air navigation has been studied intensively in various parts of the world. In the United States particular attention has been paid to the development of the course indicator system, by means of which an aeroplane can be navigated along prescribed air routes solely by the indications of wireless signals received from fixed transmitting beacons erected on the ground at appropriate points. By proceeding along a chain of such beacons, it is possible for the air navigator to fly from one aerodrome to another in a dense fog when visual observations become impossible. At a later stage, experiments were carried out in the United States on a means of enabling a pilot to land on the ground in a fog on arrival at the aerodrome.
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H. Diamond and F. W. Dunmore : “A Radio Beacon and Receiving System for Blind Landing of Aircraft.” Bur. Stand. J. Res., 5, 897–931 1930.
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Wireless Direction of Aircraft Landing in Fog. Nature 132, 451–452 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132451b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132451b0