{"id":3286,"date":"2018-10-04T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T19:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=3286"},"modified":"2018-10-04T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T19:28:45","slug":"flying-the-beam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/flying-the-beam\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying the Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timeandnavigation.si.edu\/multimedia-asset\/flying-the-beam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the Smithsonian:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlying the beam\u201d in the 1930s and 1940s meant using radio range stations to navigate. Pilots hoped to hear a steady tone on the radio that meant they were on course. If they drifted off course to either side, they would hear different sounds\u2014a Morse code \u201cA\u201d or \u201cN\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3287\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/300-si_flying_the_beam_fa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3287\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/300-si_flying_the_beam_fa.jpg\" alt=\"Flying the Beam\" width=\"400\" height=\"523\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/300-si_flying_the_beam_fa.jpg 765w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/300-si_flying_the_beam_fa-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying the Beam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Smithsonian: \u201cFlying the beam\u201d in the 1930s and 1940s meant using radio range stations to navigate. Pilots hoped to hear a steady tone on the radio that meant they were on course. If they drifted off course to either side, they would hear different sounds\u2014a Morse code \u201cA\u201d or \u201cN\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3286","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3286\/revisions\/3288"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}