Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-06-27 | Page 3 | Beacon Lights Pilot Airmen through Night

BEACON LIGHTS PILOT UlRLlEII THHOUGHtllGHT 1 Stretch Between Gere-. Gere-. land and Rock Spring to Be Light at Day. Beginning Begin-ning July 1 - i t CIIICAOO, Juno IT A KfO-mlls tratch bat was n C.aaland. ObJol and Rock. Spring a Wo., will bs d ran e had with ovorlapplnsT pools of ! light and baa pons circling horisons ' i which, 'fntsreapt jana anoihar, com- , hlnjng to produca a total of : ftO.iHM) candlapowar, whsa tha day, and night air mall aarvlos slaxtt oaj . ragular arhadula July t. 1 Tha night Tying sactlon has baosi 1 I divided Into thraa unlta awd tfcat ba- I I twsaa Chtcagn and (.'hayanna, maa aurlng tSft milas. will ba Us Mad at, one a. Tha aast and wast wings will 1 ba utlllasd as aummar waoaa and 1 days grow ahortsr, j I DIVISIONAL FIELDi. I In tha eantral division main sta-i sta-i tiona sra located at Chicago. Iowa City, la Omaha, Kab.. North I PlutiSv Nab., and Chaycnna, wyo. I Batwscn tha main tormina la ara Ul- 1 (visional fie Ida, twanly-two to twsnty-flva mllag apart. At tha j terminal flolda four sOO.Ooa.oOO i oa nd I a power baaeona will ba tha centers of Illumination and one of tha aams type beacons at sack dl- vlalonal field. Every thre mllea. In between main and divisional field, acetylene flaahea on alx foot platforma bava been Inatalled. Thee wer located iaat Auguat durlAg lha night flying experlmenta. There la actually a landing field vry thre mllea along th m-mll rout from Chl-caco Chl-caco to Cbynne. The big OOoa.00e candlapowar beacon, ara aat one half of on d-gre d-gre above the borlaoa. They re-tolv re-tolv completely around thre tune, a mlnnte and are vl.lbl for IM mllea. Other io,ot,t eandlepow-er eandlepow-er Inc.nde.cnt beacon, aimllarly aet. make Ihe circuit vry ten onda and are vtaibl for at lat 100 mll.a. The ac.tr lene beacona of (0 eandlepower are vl.lble nine mllea and tlaah M tlmea a minute. FULL CQUIPMINT. DM.Ion.l flelda ara located a. follow.: In Iowa Dixon. Ataiiaan. Wllllamaburg. MonteaumV. Deaaon. er, lea Molnae, Karlham, Caaey, Atlantic. At-lantic. Oakland. ' In Nebraska Yutan. Wahoo, David City. Aaeeola. Central City. Orand lalaad, rlhelton, Kearney. Elm Creek. Lealngto. i Uothernburg, Paxton, Ogallaia. Big , Hprlng. Ch.ppell. DIM. in Wyoming Wyom-ing Mn Bluff and Burna. Kmwgency flelda. each equipped with en I.MO.OM candlapowar tow. er beacon, Illuminated wing cone, telephon and other equipment are located In Wyoming af federal. Laramie, Bo. er. Kock River. Medicine Medi-cine Bow, Walcott. Cherokee, Win. ault.r, Bitter Creak and Bait Walls.