. Bell telephone magazine . At the end of the flight, as atits start, the AACS controltower operator gives the pilotnecessary information: correctorder of landing, wind direc-tion and velocity, and otherfacts needed for the safe com-pletion of the trip. As theplanes wheels touch theground, the tower operator re-ports time of landing to airtraffic control. Twentieth Air Force Communications When the bombardier of a B-29 releaseshis bombs over Tokyo, this fact may beknown at the Headquarters of the Twen-tieth Air Force in Washington within fourminutes—so swift and so direct is the com-munication
. Bell telephone magazine . At the end of the flight, as atits start, the AACS controltower operator gives the pilotnecessary information: correctorder of landing, wind direc-tion and velocity, and otherfacts needed for the safe com-pletion of the trip. As theplanes wheels touch theground, the tower operator re-ports time of landing to airtraffic control. Twentieth Air Force Communications When the bombardier of a B-29 releaseshis bombs over Tokyo, this fact may beknown at the Headquarters of the Twen-tieth Air Force in Washington within fourminutes—so swift and so direct is the com-munication between the planes of that stra-tegic air force and the staff group whichdirects its operations across a distance of9,000 miles. Organized as a strategic airforce operating on a global scale, with itscentral headquarters in Washington, theTwentieth Air Force has developed its ra-dio communications system to cover vastdistances at high speed: point-to-point fromWashington to the headquarters of the XXand XXI Bomber Comman
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