Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

Record Details:

Title:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Date:
Oct-Dec 1957
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Broadcasting Publications Inc.
Volume:
Broadcasting Telecasting
Leaf #:
000635
Language:
English
Subjects:
radio and television periodical, Broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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I TWT now provides— continuous ELECTRONIC MILEPOSTS IN THE SKY VORTAC— the new, automatic navigation system for all civil aircraft. From Federal Telecommunication Laboratories, a division of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, came TACAN (tactical air navigation) —to give our military aircraft the pin-point navigational accuracy and reliability, both in distance and direction from a known point, demanded for military operations at jet speeds. Because the present nationwide navigation system for civil aircraft, called VOR, already provides the VORTAC airborne equipment is now available. For detailed information write to Federal Telephone and Radio Company, a division of IT&T, Clifton, N. J. directional information, the government's Air Coordinating Committee decided to add the distance measuring feature of TACAN— creating a new integrated system called VORTAC. Soon all aircraft— private and commercial as well as military — will receive complete navigational information from either TACAN or VORTAC. In the skies, over the seas, and in industry . . . the pioneering leadership in telecommunication research by IT&T speeds the pace of electronic progress. INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATION, 67 Broad Street, New York 4, N.Y. Broadcasting November 4, 1957 • Page 83