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bassman
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« on: June 02, 2015, 06:50:48 AM »
Found this interesting....

http://sometimes-interesting.com/2013/12/04/concrete-arrows-and-the-u-s-airmail-beacon-system/
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« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2015, 10:55:51 AM »
Thats Pretty cool
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Patrick
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« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2015, 11:55:03 AM »
Another piece of history thats being forgotten. Thanks for posting this. 
Before lights, fires were manned for a number of years during the early days of night flight.
Pennsylvania was known as the pilots grave yard during those years.
I still have some of my grandfathers and fathers Radio Range charts. Flying sure was different in those days.
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old2soon
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« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2015, 06:14:43 PM »
Have one to go see here in the Sho Me. NOT a Pilot or a Navigator BUT I have seat time lookin at junks and sampans. AND the A/C I was in killed a few of those boats. Early anything is always interesting to me.  cooldude RIDE SAFE
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« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2015, 06:51:39 PM »
I've known about this for quite a long time and actually took the time and effort to find and land on one in a Army helicopter in Kansas once.   Considering what was available for navigation way back when, those were some daring men in their flying machines. 
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