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/ Mil BRIG. GENERAL DAVID SARNOFF, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF NAVY FOR AIR JOHN L. SULLIVAN, AND CHARLES R. DENNY, ACT- ING CHAIRMAN OF THE FCC, AT THE DEMONSTRATION OF AIRBORNE TELEVISION, HELD MARCH 21, AT ANACOSTIA, D. 0. Airborne Television Demonstrated TWO SYSTEMS, DES/GNATED DUR/NG WART/ME AS "BLOCK" AND "R/NG," ARE K^\^M^D TO ?\\^l\C FOR F/RST TIME IN SPECTACULAR AERIAL EXHIBITION AT NAVY AIR STATION, ANACOSTIA. D.C. f^^u REVOLUTIONARY television news coverage over long and short distances, from cars, boats, planes and helicopters is foreseen by Brigadier General David Sar- noff, President of the Radio Coi'po- ration of America, as one of many possibilities opened by two systems of airborne television revealed to the public for the first time on March 21, in a joint Navy-RCA demonstration at the Navy Air Sta- tion, Anacostia, D. C. During the war the systems had been classified by the Navy under the security pseudonyms of "Block" and "Ring." Naval authorities assigned to the demonstration a fast, high-flying JM-1 Marauder plane carrying Ring transmitting units capable of transmitting high-quality television pictures up to 200 miles. The plane cruised over Baltimore and soared on to Annapolis, picking up scenes and action along the way and trans- mitting the images directly to a bank of television receivers arrayed before guests in the Gymnasium Building at Anacostia. Then proceeding to a rendezvous, miles away, the Marauder trained its television eyes on mock combat scenes that might have been dupli- cated in real battle only a few months ago—dive-bombing, smoke- screen laying, strafing, dog-fights. Instantly, the receivers at Anacostia came alive with authentic pictures of the action and viewers became eye-witnesses of events that were actually beyond the horizon. In this manner, command posts of the fu- ture will be able to see instantly combat action in distant terrain and make tactical decisions imme- diately. During the period while Ring-equipped plane was en route to the target area, two smaller planes with short - range, light - weight Block installations picked up scenes along the Potomac and over the capital, demonstrating an- other system of airborne television which has vast possibilities for use- fulness to the armed services and to peacetime enterprises. One of the Block-equipped planes was the two-motored RCA Victor "Flying Laboratory" and the sec- ond was a Navy training model. It was possible at Anacostia to bring in views flashed by first one and then the other and to receive a transmission from the No. 2 plane picking up No. 1 as the latter headed back toward the Air Sta- tion. As a finale in this phase of the demonstration, the No. 2 plane %«%^ [RADIO AGE 3]