Show used aerial lead fish to pick up the message when the two way radio apparatus failed observers on the ground were perplexed as to how they could give instructions to occupants of an airplane during army maneuvers says kopul ar I 1 Itle mechanics chanles magazine the problem was soiled by tiang the dispatch in a tobacco sack weighted with small stones and attaching that to a string about twenty feet long ions which was held taut by two men the pilot informed by the panel signal to stand by for instructions descended close enough to see what was going on then returned presently with the radio antenna unreeled As lie approached pro ached the men holding the string lie he throttled the engine al allowing loNing the lead fish at the end of tile the aerial to hang more nearly vertical it caught the cord and the message ans hauled into the cockpit this method Is now in general use for communication in the air corps when nhen the radio sets do not work and the panel signal will not give sufficient data |