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Old September 11th 03, 07:26 AM
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 03:49:50 GMT, "William T Bartlett"
wrote:

They flew very effectively on the Adcock range, which was set up across the
nation. This was a aural navigation system in which all that was necessary
was a tunable low freq radio, a watch, compas. and chart (some knowledge of
Morris code


big snip for obvious reasons

look up adcock range on Goggle.DF was also available.
Bill

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Bill..

Morris code?
Yeah, right.

Like Del said.....
They mostly flew into the ground.


Barnyard BOb - pre VOR pilot
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Del Rawlins wrote:

On 29 Aug 2003 01:15 PM, Dick posted the following:


Staring at my empty instrument panel while considering which
instruments and their placement, I got wondering how old time Mail
pilots flew if caught in IFR conditions.



Mostly, they flew into the ground.

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