South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-30
RADIO HASH new
Dish TO PARALYZE
ENEMY'S WIRELESS
Pow erful Interference Equip
ment for Planes l. |. :.
Invention.
IN FRANZ =. Drummer
fFormrr Stan Correspondent of the
Armg and NaVy Journal
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iart weapon m. Jho United states
hsLlie fleets tde newest project 90
boz perfected undee direction OF tac
studfoIs experts or the Navy Start
Ing Getelopmer are promised
when The '-scrsmuIer has been
worked out in final tests The
scheme Lnss radio-cqulp air
craft with our nshurg surface ships
Tor the purpose % rendering an
cremi's radio communications use
less by powerful Interference during
ar engagement With the radio
scramo,er' controlled Dy our fleets
an enemys wireless would be anSIed
into suffering flashes Impossible Of
appreciation
An but what about finding the
other fellows wave lengths asks
the radio SHARK
simple enough. says he expert.
simple as pgs hinE he minute hand
al around the face o. the clock
The radio scramble Will be
ready when the Na.E SIS rigid airsE:p
row building ~ Iakehlrst. y. j., is
cons ieted. &C. ia promised The eX-
rer mems with The apparatus 70 is
q AIRED viii then merely be FOR
flraI tuning ~ and tests for dis
taH-o Of control so certain are the
-neIs OF their complete success.
C5ntrol l. Established
fh, development i'm adjusting air
cia ard radio have come step by
s-cr to this newest scheme for in
terferCncc Tn connection with the
Do-k that has gone forward steadily
~. more than three years. the posi-
t,t. control OF airships. airplanes.
to proocs ana surface warships by
radio has been absolutely establish
set. Inception OF the plan is traced
f0 Benjamin BriscOe. or Detroit,
thcn n commander iu the Navy and
chief or the assembly and repair sec
ton cf naval aviation.
commander Briscoe. IN December
1878. laid before Capt II. l. Cone.
$ y in command or naval avia-
ton cserscas. a scheme for the logi-
cal Development OF wireless control
Or aerial torpedocs and aircraft. He
PLANNED that large airships carry
aeets or radio-directed airplanes
foaded with explosive. with the pur-
pose of sending The planes over Ger
man ships and Eases. there 10 drop
with their weight Of high explosive.
ln other words. the large airship
equipped with powerful apparatus
would bc able 70 direct the course
and control the firing of winged tor
pedoes launched from her. The
plan also designed that airships he
O.
ships for airplaucs and seaplanes
90 be controlled and to fight of
hostile attacks on the aerial radio
base Commander Briscoa was an
authority whose ideas carried weight
He was one Of the first automobile
manufacturer in this country. and
with T. T. ODDS and W c. Durant
settled that industry permanently In
Detroit
Trials OF Aerial bombing.
His aero wireless recommends
lions were placed before the general
board OF the navy following the
armist.ce and This group or admirals
went deeply into the subject. Lieut..
G. a Tinker. assistant assembly and
repair officer Of naval aviation over
seas was called in consultation with
Admiral Charles j. Badger and Ad-
wiral Henry r Mayo OF the general
hoard. regarding radio control Of
aircraft and especially Of rigid air
$3.50.
az the battleship Iowa I'm the aerial
iomb.rS tests of the Virginia coast
1gd further consultations were Ield
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