Aerial equipment on the Imperial Airways liner Hengist, c1936 (c1937). Artist: Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd.

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Aerial equipment on the Imperial Airways liner Hengist, c1936 (c1937). The round aerial is part of the homing radio system, one of the first aerial directional finding systems. From Wonders of World Aviation, Vol. 1, by Clarence Winchester. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd, London, c1937]

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