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Post by Mark O on Jun 4, 2014 13:09:06 GMT 9
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Jim Scanlon (deceased)
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jun 5, 2014 5:43:33 GMT 9
Good story, Mark.
I had seen a story on the Arrows recently, but this one has some more information.
There are probably more out there than the story relates, as some places the farmers just plant around them, or they are in tall, grass pastures.
I think IFR (I Follow Road/Railroad Tracks) may still be in use.
We used it with our Gooney Bird at The SCAB.
Much easier than the crew trying to navigate.
Notice that the Map shows the Route following old U.S. 30 to the cutoff to SLC, then U.S. 40 to San Francisco.
It is now I-80 Coast-to-Coast.
Easy way to IFR from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Jim Too
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Post by Jim on Jun 5, 2014 7:02:19 GMT 9
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Jim Scanlon (deceased)
Senior Staff
FORUM CHAPLAIN
Commander South Texas outpost of the County Sligo Squadron
Currently: Offline
Posts: 5,075
Location:
Joined: July 2007
Retired: USAF
NBA: Spurs
NFL: Niners
MLB: Giants
NHL: Penguins
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jun 5, 2014 8:13:45 GMT 9
Some of you may have seen a number of Airport Direction Signs and never knew it.
As I have traveled around our nation, I have seen many of those signs.
Some were painted on the roofs of barns, some on highways, some, like the one Jim posted, on hillsides.
There were lots of low-tech ways to point aviators and aviatrixes to the nearest airport.
When night fell, pilots looked for a light circling in the night; white and green.
They knew an airport was close if they saw the light rotating, and headed for a runway.
Jim and others have probably landed at airports that would turn the runway lights on via radio, or sometimes by buzzing the base operators house.
Jim Too
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