Show liGHTHOUSES FOR lANDING PlANES New Searchlight and Reflectors Reflectors Re Re- Reflectors Designed as Guides at Night n fly College I ens Service Demonstrations with an apparatus consisting of ot a a. large sho Izo searchlight and a huge inclined mirror which have Just been completed by the searchlight of the General Electric company compan at Schenectady Y are believed to be the forerunners of ot land lighthouses for Cor tho the use of ot airplanes airplanes air air- planes at night The Tho equipment used In the tests teats COMprised con con- a thirty six high intensity searchlight having a a. capacity of ot beam candlepower and a a. mirror sufficient large e to reflect this ful beam Tho The searchlight was in In- In closed in a housinG structure and re remained remained remained re- re stationary The Tho beam beum played though a window In the thc house upon the mirror and was relec reflected t. t l straight up Into the sk sky to a great s-reat height The mirror was Inclined at an angle le of ot 45 46 degrees and was movable mo al allowing al- al lowing the light beam to be rotated in the air I The proposal Is to Identity Identify the town ton I or station by rotating the light In a 1 certain manner Thus a string of these I Iland land lighthouses could be set up ty five miles mites apart between two points like New Now York and Washington Wahington and to the airplane pilot familiar with their ther signals they would constitute a n. perfect guiding path through the night as well wen wenas as Identify desired landing places By enclosing the searchlight this delicate would be bo protected at all times from the weather In the General Electric tests the light beam was ob observed er ed at nt points from Cram sixty five to seventy five miles mites distant Land lighthouses if It established would be only about half halt as far Car apart how how- ever er |