Short Final: What's on the Menu?

News Discussion
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In Col. Robert Scott’s book “God Is My Copilot,” he relates his experiences serving with the American Volunteer Group in China, better known as the Flying Tigers. Scott was not an official member of the group. Rather, he was assigned as a transport pilot, but talked AVG leader Gen. Claire Chennault into “loaning” him a P-40 to help protect the cargo aircraft.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/the-ability-to-take-direction-is-sometimes-a-virtue
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What? I would enjoy reading about the system and technology that could locate and estimate the distance and bearing to an aircraft flying 27 miles away.

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Coincidentally, I just learned about this last week. Here’s one story on “War Tubas” https://www.cnn.com/style/article/war-sound-locators-before-radar/index.html you might find interesting.

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Read the book. :man_shrugging: