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AVIATION: (Electronic device guides
Issue Number
copter thru former impossible flying
7639xi
conditions)
Subject
7659x8 Cameraman
ALL WEATHER HELICOPTER
MARATHON
Length
Neg.
Dupe
Pos.
Cuts
Bk No: 7324-9
169ft.
F.G.POS.
Can
Daption junked after
chrd marte
Description and Remarks
BEAUMONT, TEXAS: (var.scenes
Date of Event
1957
of helicopter with new "homing" device "Helihomer"
which guides it in foul weather to roost on offshore oil rig's landing
platform--device was designed by Clover Field Radio Supply in coopera-
tion with Sam Willis,chief pilot of Magnolia Petroleum which is a
sub-
sidiary of Socony Mobil Oil Companyo-Scenes in the Gulf of Mexico,stirr
ed up in fou! weather--pilot dons earphones and copter takes off--var.
scs. copter flying over the signal is sweeping S-curves--when his in-
strument panel registers strongest signal he is pointed at the rig--as
signal gets louder, he gets closerwohe adjusts compass,etc--his hand on
meter,air shot of the rig-che lands, workers run to copter
BEAUMONT, TEXAS. -AVIATION--AUTOGYRO(C opter) WEATHER
SCIENTIFIC
FORM 2530-8M-12/68
OVER
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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