Nome Army Air
Base Salutes AACS
f While you’re reading this, whe
ther it’s night or day, there are
airplanes landing at Army Air
Bases all over the world. The pi
lots of these planes have at their
fingertips all the necessary infor
mation to insure them safe land
ings. Wind directions and veloc
ity, altimeter setting, landing in
structions, and field conditions
have all been radioed to them
f while they were still far from the
fields. All this information, and
the control of traffic in the air in
the vicinity of the fields is being
handled by a group of men like
those in the green-glass house
perched high above Hangar No. 1
at Nome Army Air Base. The men
at Nome, and at bases in all parts
of the world are part of the Air
ways and Air Communications
Service.
It doesn’t take an economist
Some left-wingers in the Demo
cratic party consider it more Re
publican than Democratic. Foreign
countries can be certain that the
stand taken by Secretary Byrnes
will not be weakened by a Repub
lican Congress.
these days to tell you that nothing
is free, and now even the air you
breathe and live in has been har
nessed by an organization of ap
proximately 13,000 men—Airways
and Air Communication Service.
This closely-knit outfit of highly
trained and specialized men and
women has called a halt to what
once was the dangerous practice
of flying at whatever altitude and
direction which seemed to please
the pilot, and with over $150,000,
000 worth of equipment in their
hands, has made flying a compar
atively safe occupation.
How this was accomplished, and
in how short a time, is now his
I tory to all airmen and the fame
I of the Airways and Air Communi
j cations Service (like its tenacle
: fashioned air control) has spread
! completely around the globe. The
Pacific Ocean holds no fears for
the Army pilot, nor does he hesi
tate to fly over the ice-covered
regions of the Arctic. He knows
that Airways and Air Communi
cations Service has set up control
towers, assigned him a safe alti
tude, furnished accurate local wea
ther advice and kept his approach
clear of other planes. He knows
that an AACS-manned high-fre
quency station is operating to
! maintain contact with all planes
flying between it and stations to
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the north, south, east, or west. He
can flick a switch at his finger
tips and his headphones will re
sound with a constant radio beam
(from an AACS-operated range
station) which will guide him to a
safe landing. The pilot does not
fear blind landings as he would in
the past for AACS has developed
equipment for adverse weather
flying, et few people, outside of
those whose lives depend on tie
aids to air navigation furnished by
AACS, know of the methods by
which Airways and Air Communi
cations Service operates.
The work first begins when re
cruits go through a screening pro- j
cess upon entering the Army Air (
Foces. Aptitudes, mechanical abil
ity and general intelligence are
measured by standard Army tests. J
Those men having qualifications
for Air Communication Service
work are shuttled to technical
schools upon completion of their
basic training. Here they are in
structed by seasoned communica
tions veterans in the myriad work
i ings of radios, teletype machines,
wire-photo devices and control
| tower equipment. When they com
plete their courses, they are sent
j to the Airways and Air Communi
I cations Service screening center
j now located at Langley Field, Vir
ginia. Here they are assigned to
| either domestic or foreign duty
and proceed to their permanent
stations as integral parts of the
Airways Police Force—“The Pi
lots’ Third Hand.”
To the men in the AACS goes
! the task of twenty-four-hour vig
• ils over the sky, in lonely outposts
miles from any civilization, in
: thickly-populated areas where
misinformation could cause a
crash on Main Street, or in other
parts of the world where wrong
instructions might cause an air
plane to be lost in jungles or
deserts.
Today records are continually
being smashed by long-range
Army bombers, speedy jet fight
ers, and other aircraft aided im
measurably by AACS facilities.
The men of AACS ask no thanks,
for their reward comes from
knowing that their job of control
ling the skies is a job well done.
Nome Army Air Base salutes its
AACS men and their fellows all
over the world on the eighth
birthday of their organization.
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has been open for business re
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of reorganizing. Other south side
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