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Re: [OM] Airline Travel Random Observation

Subject: Re: [OM] Airline Travel Random Observation
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:06:02 +0200
Thanks, Jim, that makes sense.

Chris

> On 8 Sep 15, at 21:16, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I think it is a holdover from the original A/N range, where one flew a fixed 
> beam, with a Morse A on one side and an N on the other. They blended into a 
> continuous tone when one was "on the beam". That was just disappearing, and 
> VOR was all the rage, when I started flying in 1957.  "Range" was a part of 
> the culture, and VOR gave one omni-ranges instead of the single beam.

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