For bluEldr and other Olde Pharrts
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:52 am
From my personal collection of old air charts: There is no date on this chart that I can find, but Hensley Field is still an Army field on this chart. By WW-2 it had become known as "Navy Dallas". I believe this chart is no later than 1942.
This is on ordinary 8.5 X 11 " paper, and the printing is just as you see it. (Back then those old guys not only had to have good hearing to tell the difference between a ._ and _. ( Morse-code A or N)...they also had to be able to read the small print the gov't made these charts with.
It helps to zoom in using the Adobe PDF (+) key...but it seems like cheating.
I'd hate to have had to fly this approach at night with sorry cockpit lighting, bouncing airplane, while trying to listen for an "A" or a HUM or an "N" ...in-between the round-engines, cockpit wind-noise, crackling and popping of Lightning and background-Static of AM radios.
(Note that Love Field Tower is on freq. 278 KC while the radio-range approach is on 341KC...and that was on an analog-tuned receiver!)
This is on ordinary 8.5 X 11 " paper, and the printing is just as you see it. (Back then those old guys not only had to have good hearing to tell the difference between a ._ and _. ( Morse-code A or N)...they also had to be able to read the small print the gov't made these charts with.
It helps to zoom in using the Adobe PDF (+) key...but it seems like cheating.
I'd hate to have had to fly this approach at night with sorry cockpit lighting, bouncing airplane, while trying to listen for an "A" or a HUM or an "N" ...in-between the round-engines, cockpit wind-noise, crackling and popping of Lightning and background-Static of AM radios.

(Note that Love Field Tower is on freq. 278 KC while the radio-range approach is on 341KC...and that was on an analog-tuned receiver!)