Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-10-20 | Page 1 | Flier Addresses Convention from Plans 1300 Miles from Session

Flier Addresses Convention From FromI I Plane 1300 Miles From Session By C. C E. E BUTTERFIELD NEW YO YORK R K Oct 19 Associated Press Press Talking Talking from an airplane feet Jn In the air and 1300 miles away way Captain A R. R Brooks s t today addressed the annual convention of the Telephone Pioneers of America at M Minneapolis A combination of radio and land telephone lines which connected New York Minneapolis und and the air plane pane into a L single circuit thus another mUe milestone tone to the progress of comm communication It H was the thc first irit time that an airplane e WaS bridged into a conn connection cUon b between n two distant points rho Tho B Bell Telephone laboratories radio station at nl ny N. N J. J between tho tho- Ul ine I as was thc he huh Hult which was waI flying over flying over oyer New ew Brunswick Brunswick Bruns Bruns- wick N. N J. J at f a speed of or ninety ninety- ty- ty five miles an un h hour ul and tine the land telephone lines leading to a a 0 l lag InS po post t In New York and to the tho In Minneapolis p Three l J loUd speaker J. J the aviators aviator's thousand as- as voice v audible to the Pioneers ets incidentally Captain Dr Brooks notified noti not fied J. J S. S president ld nt of or the Telephone company compan of N 1 York his liis a HI president of oC the lie Pioneers Mr Zhi i McCulloh accepted d I It i b by telephony telephone from his New York ork office with both the airplane and ancl the tho con convention listening ln in In his address's ss s to 10 the tho CU con I atlon 1 lon Captain Br Brooks sald AVe We c are nrc flying a no place five 1 which we wc we have converted con con- con con- laboratory for tOl lot vented Into it R a n flying making makinS of 01 radi measure measure- in the air au Our fundamental investigations are arc still tHI going en Ca but buta a few months hs ago we wc e chad ached a 1 point pont where oui our engineers could design the tine lu radio sets which sets which I ha have haC C Cin in the plane now floW sensitive receiving h We Vc 1 Ja have VC a 1 very lug ing set small and compact and weighing weIghing- ICES lers tb than n thirteen Our transmitting equipment is also cry very co compact and weighs hs but bul bout about twenty eight pounds pound Our con communication with you ou isby isby is isby by radio to our sta station lon at Whip Whip- pany jany N. N J J. J d d d thence through the thelong thelong long lines s of r the he Bell 5 system to you youat youat youat at Minneapolis Captain n Brooks used a special pc ial microphone which excluded the nol noise e of ot the airplane At t on one he held tho the microphone so 80 that his listeners could h hear ar the terrific of the The plane used us-ed I by Ca Captain Brooks was was tho flying radio iUlIO laboratory of of the Bell DeJl l laboratories