Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 23, 1958, Image 48

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    Navy jets use mirrors now
to set down on home deck.
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M odern aircraft carriers are immense only
to the landlubber. To jet pilots who
must approach them at well over a
hundred miles an hour, they sometimes appear
little bigger than a raft in a pitching sea. The
U. S. Navy, however, has come up with a
device to make pinpoint landings almost a
sure thing. Technicians have set up a battery
of amber lamps behind a specially designed
concave mirror which reflects the light
upward in a perfect approach pattern. As long
as the flyer can see the reflection, he knows he's ; , ; ? 1
"oh the beam." The idea, called "Operation ? - :
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hamburger, already has cut salt-water dunkings V ; x
and deck mishaDS bv one-third and reduced crash !t..i.i.a!t.ffi:iUi
1 costs by $50 million a year. Modern warrior and his modern guidon it reflects perfect approach beam.
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