Weather vs. Combat

Subject: Weather vs. Combat
From: "PosterBoy"
Date: 8/29/03 7:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: Weather vs. Combat
From: "PosterBoy"
Date: 8/29/03 6:04 PM Pacific

(ILS REMAINS UNCHANGED)
More than one type of ILS system was tried. The system eventually adopted
consisted of a course indicator (called a localizer) that showed whether
the
plane was to the left or right of the runway centerline, a glide path or
landing beam to show if the plane was above or below the glide slope, and
two marker beacons for showing the progress of approach to the landing
field. Equipment in the airplane allowed the pilot to receive the
information that was sent so he could keep the craft on a perfect flight
path to visual contact with the runway. Approach lighting and other
visibility equipment are part of the ILS and also aid the pilot in
landing.
In 2001, the ILS remains basically unchanged.

(NINE LOCATIONS BY 1945, TEN UNDERWAY)
By 1945, nine CAA systems were operating and 10 additional locations were
under construction.

(ARMY INSTALLING 50)
Another 50 were being installed for the army. On January 15, 1945, the
U.S.
Army introduced an ILS with a higher frequency transmitter to reduce
static
and create straighter courses, called the Army Air Forces Instrument
Approach System Signal Set 51. In 1949, the International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO) adopted this army standard for all member countries.
In
the 1960s, the first ILS equipment for fully blind landings became
possible.

Cheers.




Here's the way we did it when flying out of Stansted England before D-Day.
.
You would taxi out to the head of the runway. If you could see the end of
the
runway you went. If you couldn't see the end of the runway you went
anyway.

Believe it, Art!!
Same-same K-2 in Korea, 'cept it was mainly haze from the breakfast kimchi
pots in the nearby village of Taegu!
And, I'm sure that the air conditioning system...which could and did blow
frost all around the '86 cockpit...made waiting for the haze to clear a bit
more pleasant than in the Maurader.

Cheers.



Our weather officer, Paul Forant (Boston) couldn't sleep nights and had a
recurring nightmare. He would dream he had the entire 344th in the air coming
back from a mission, low on fuel with wounded aboard with no place to bring us
down.