| Show AIR AIR FLIGHTS DIRECTED i iBY BY RADIO TELEPHONE I II i USED AT WHITE HOUSE HOUSEl t I I IW By y Universal Service I I h III Nov 1 22 Through 2 Through a radio telephone installed installed- on the thc W WASHINGTON south portico of or tho flue 11 White hilt House I President W Wilson 1 lson ilson today directed t time the e maneuvers CIS of half of half a dozen ozen army airplanes flying over or the Potomac l' l river r several sc miles away awny Mrs hrs 1 Wilson and George Georgo o C chairman of the time cot COl COL- COL ce on public information were the tho spectators with a 11 group of army officers officers of- of fiesta who conducted the time installation of the aerial telephone connected with witha m mt I small yield field switch switchboard at which tho President ent stood a t I unc plane i In vau U several lIe times and un s swung aroun around around a clr- clr elo clo 1500 1600 to 2000 feet reel above e tits the tho ground visible They were scarcely Se Several Seral ral telephone receivers were connected con con- to thu tho switchboard and anil Mrs 1 Wilson lIson and other members of ot the tho party parI party par par- ty were enabled to listen to the thc command command com com- I mand as well as watch the execution A single plane carrying a R flight commander commander commander com com- mander rose In the tho air nil first and flew up and down dived and looped In accordance ac accordance ac- ac e with tho the or order el telephoned from the ground Then following di directions directions dl- dl ns the tho flight commander flew v back to Boiling Dolling hell Held and In response to orders called upon his squadron to maneuver maneu y Device lc In l The rite telephone phone as used today tolla was as adjusted adjusted ad adjusted ad- ad for from front three to five or six Mix miles It Is sIlar to the Instruments u by aviators a In France Franco tho time secret of ot which was disclosed after arter the armistice was signed Col C. C C C. C Culver is credited re Bed In the tho department of ot military aeronautics the development of tho device with having ha been tho the active j R ant nt tn to It was In Inu August u ut 1910 that I I first became interested In th the pO portability of ot sending messages from airplanes Colonel Colon 1 Culver el said today and ancl commenced commenced com coin mended a series of oC experiments which were so o far successful that In August I was enabled to send scud a n ra radio lo tel tel- message from a a. piano over oer over Chatsworth Cal to San Diego a distance dla- dla tanco tance of or 1010 miles mile Piaui Iro Proves Success In February 1917 after wo we had en enlisted enlisted en- en listed liste the tho assistance at of the foremost American t telephone companies and their expert acoustical men mono wo we vo- vo suc succeeded 1 in transmitting vocal ocal messages ei from a A. plane lane to tho the ground In October Octo Octo- her ber 1911 1914 m I 1 took the first sets Bets to Franco and anti made mado demonstrations there sent By August complete sets had been sent to our forces In France Franc and our whole effort was being devoted lo to tl tho U complete com com- lete 1 utilization of tho the possibilities it inthe In Inthe the offensive c we wc expected next spring Nobody Intended anything new in n applying the ra radio radio l telephone hon to military mili mili- tar tary airplanes i What hat was waR done 1 was the 1 adaptation and anel adjustment of at previously previously pre pre- discovered disco laws to a tow now field anI Only squad and flight ht leaders have ha I their planes equipped with transmitters transmit transmit- so that the they ma may give orders order as os a aI I power Io plant Is required to transmit transmit-I generate current Tho The receiving apparatus which Is very lI light ht can be Installed on nn all planes plane The Tho visible portion of ot the radio sets pots resemble almost exactly I the tho ordinary telephone r receiver er cel and acid transmitter Colonel Culver predicted that thal the telephone would be Le a valuable alua I I ble adjunct to commercial use of ot airplanes air air- planes plaices I |
