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Re: Lighted beacons
From: Charles Wood
Date: 1999 Oct 05, 13:22 EDT
From: Charles Wood
Date: 1999 Oct 05, 13:22 EDT
Hello Craig, Thank you for your response to my request on airway beacons. I am brand new here and have no idea how to reply to an individual or to a group or anything. I hope this gets to you. Several specific questions on airway beacons: What was the color code? ... Airports are green-white, I presume airway beacons were white-white. How did they flash the morse code identifiers? Were the identification signals in morse code? How could pilots see these morse identifiers in contrast to the gazillion-candle-power beacons? What was the typical separation of airway beacons? Was there a common tower height that they were mounted on? How was maintenance performed? What was the angle above the horizon that these beacons shone? Unrelated: If the table of contents of the 1940s airways manual isn't too long, could you read it back to me via an e-mail? Thank you very much. Charlie
