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4 EROCHaVN EAGLE, SUM, JAM 26. IS-H Landings Via Radar Demonstrated by Navy six ABRAHAM. Wet IT. MOTT to RFADV MONDAY AT 9.30 'j 9 t1 700 feet from the end of the runway The rest was up to the pilot. A Smooth Landing A smooth landing, and Uiai'a there was to it.

The piiil emerged Our CEILING ZERO A Naval Air Reserve plane, R-4-D, the navy equivalent of the army DC3, just brought in "blind" by ground control the yellow mobile unit to the right. from his blacked-out cabin and It was voted we do it a2in. Pilots LI. Comm. Nelson Case.

IT. S. N. commander of Offic-r Reserve Transport Squadron VR-71. ho is radio announcer during the Mai.

Wilfred C. Mclnnis is service counselor. The outfit took part In the four major battles of Italy during World War II and in 1944 became known as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery. II Corps Artillery. More tiian half of the veteransive on Long Island.

oigg week, and Lt. William Phipps. U. S.i N. executive officer of Reserve Transport Squadron VR-71.

come out for one week-end a month to continue their flying practice and training. The five operators In the truck ranged fiom 18 to 21 years of age. One was a Brooklyn man, Pred Gardner, radar man. 3d Cla.ss, 19, of 137 88th Bay KidKe. Any pilot can come in on O.

C. A instructions. Lt. Karle Hanson told, reporters. It takes no special i edw of radar.

At the field, they! turn out the radar trucks when vlsi-j bility goes below 3 miles and drops to 1 000 feet. 1 In the past year, army and navy forces have made 115 000 landinxs by G. C. with only one accident. i SMART EYEWEAR AT LOW PRICES Br ROVNir HALKENHUSm Naval Air ReTviu -nt through the pare of foul weather landings bv radar control for newsmen ya-terdar.

the windows of the pilot cabin, the pilot flew navy Douglas R-4-Da under conditions equal to the airman nemesis ceiling rero. visibility iiero. Seven mile away from the fWd they started In for a landing on in-atructlons phoned by a group of radar men In a mobile unit on Flovd Bennett Tield. Reporters who accompanied them on the demonstrations f.ighu of C. A.

(ground controlled approach) wora headsets which enabled them to listen In on the relayed tnstruc tiona from ground radar men to pilot Contract Established First contact was established wlwn the plane wa about five miles from the field. Our plane was number 108. Through the receiver a voice broke through: '108. 108, your altitude 1.500." As the plane neared Rorkaway, the radax man followed Its path on the radarscope before him. Then while on the ground, as the man got the plan on its downward leg.

another took over, giving direction to our pilot to get him across wind, in position to fly Into the field, the fmal leg. "108. you're coming across very nicely," came through the phones. Then the precision radar men got busy. 108, you're 30 feet above the glide path," we heard.

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