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Our first airways, their organization, equipment, and finance (1919)

Grahame-White, Claude, 1879-, Harper, Harry · London :bLane · leaf 108

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landmark, to keep him withaccuracy on any given course. The chief risk lies in the alighting ofa machine should an aerodrome be obscuredby fog. Here the problem for an airway,as for a railway, is to illuminate the fog.What we must have is a system of illumi-nation which will throw light beams… … OUR FIRST AIRWAYS 77 upward, is one which is famihar to studentsof such problems—the difficulty being toobtain a ray which will penetrate through afog, and will not be dispersed and dissipatedwhen it impinges on the thick masses ofthe fog. Assuming, however, that we havethe best form of light…

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