Show WIRELESS IRELESS W PHONE THONE AIRPLANE GUIDE radio gives instant response to the inquiry where am I 1 DIRECTION FINDERS FINDER is WORK five times as easy to get lost in an airplane as in an automobile because of the greater speed says an expert new york the airplane ordinarily tunnels about r five times as fast as au an automobile or steamship and this explains bihy it Is five times as easy to get lost in an ail airplane as in land or water vehicles according to john it R cantley of the wright wryght aeronautical corporation difficulties such as this however seem to ex exist merely to give someone in the aeronautical game the pleasure of overcoming them lie he said the pathway to commercial a aviation a few years ago seemed insurmountable but now all obstacles have been cleared away in the case of guidance the aero experts have decided to use the new wireless telephone there are no signboards sign boards in the air and by the time an aeronaut had bad calculated his position by old fashioned nautical methods lie he would merely have placed one spot on the earths surface where he knew he was not located consequently the aviator to supplement his air maps while flying in clouds during low visibility or over lin unknown known territory must have some fast way of reckoning his location radio Is rapid faster even than the plane and Is therefore the ideal aid to aero navigation guided by radio mien the nga winged her way across the ocean there was a skilled ravI navigator gator commander A C read himself Hin self in the forward cockpit with the usual instruments ol of marine navigation but behind him was a radio man who operated in addition to the usual wireless with traill trailing ng antennae n radio direct direction lon finder driller the mechanism gave him the exact direction of the nearest destroyer in the chain stretching from brer asey to the azores merely by heading in the direction from which the he destroyer radio ilg nals came the plane roared her way across the tills this was one of the first uses of the wireless ns as navigation equipment and it was of course crude in aviation everything Is crude which Is more than a few months old for never lid did any other industry progress so rapidly in addition to the lie landing field system which Is surely coming in tills this country as it is elsewhere throughout the world as commercial aviation develops there will undoubtedly be built up a system of radio stations at the landing fields and at other points the carrying of direct direction ton finding apparatus Is of course burdensome in airplanes since besides its weight it requires either an operator or part of the imp the attention of the pilot who should be free to handle the plane in tile the stations themselves this lipp apparatus aratus can be installed instead all that tile the plane plan 1 will I need Is a simple rado phone sending in and ree recoiling eking apparatus where am I 1 where am I 1 ti he ae pilot will inquire speaking into his transmitter somewhere down below perhaps concealed by underlying clouds or mist the stations will nill hear bear and a almost instant instantaneously calculate the direction it and answer does tills sound farfetched far fetched already navy radio stations eions use precisely similar methods save bave that they use tle lorelei s telegraph signals tig nals and are daily giving locations and an d hearings bearings to ocean steamships hips on oil the atlantic coast the OP application to airplanes is a mere matter of establishing stations and installing equip ment on planes pianos in ili addition to giving locations these stations will be ot of great value to keep informed as to planes on long flights prevailing winds at various belg heights litS changing meteorological conditions cloud heights and so forth the men in the plane will be in very much closer communication with the world while flying a hundred miles tin an hour five or ten thousand feet above the earth than tourists in nn an automobile below them larger machines of course will probably carry their own oin operators who may handle direct directional lonni wireless apparatus as well as their radio mechanism but small planes machines corresponding to automobiles in passenger and freight capacity can dispense pen se with a radio man yet have precisely the same directional advantages leading air airplane plane companies such as are now making planes for service across the continent or parts of it will probably be compelled to erect their own radio stations but eventually I 1 believe the federal government will recognize its duty to aircraft as well as sea craft and establish a comprehensive lien sIve system of stations these stations will be of great value to air service flyers mall mail pilots forest fire patrols etc as well as to civilian flyers and in addition could be used for other radio purposes as well personally I 1 am of the opinion that the air traffic will in the near future be all such stations could handle the american people are far too progress progressive ives not to grasp rapidly the advantages of multiplied speed in the transportation of passengers malls and freight |