Flying Blind: How Adak Was Found Before Screens (WW2 Cold War Aleutian Aviation) скачать в хорошем качестве

Flying Blind: How Adak Was Found Before Screens (WW2 Cold War Aleutian Aviation)

Before GPS. Before radar screens. Before satellites told you where you were. Pilots found Adak by sound. This radio station sent four invisible beams into the sky. Drift left or right and you heard it immediately. But if you were exactly where you needed to be, all you heard was a single steady tone. You were on the beam. In this episode, Ronan and I hike out to one of the last surviving radio range towers on Adak Island — part of a system that once guided aircraft through Aleutian fog, weather, and darkness. Pilots didn’t fly to Adak. They flew until they heard it. The system couldn’t tell them altitude. That part was on the pilot. Charts, time, experience, and trust. Every passenger trusted their life to someone listening to a tone coming from this room. I’m not an aviation historian. If I get details wrong, I leave it to the people who actually worked here to correct me — because places like this only really make sense when you listen to the people who lived them. This is part of Planet Adak — a series about landscapes that remember, and the way the past resurfaces when you’re not even looking for it. 00:00 Finding Adak by sound 00:45 Hiking out to the tower 02:10 The bridge and wartime infrastructure 03:05 Gyo Obata and WWII design 04:10 Weather, snow, and wet feet 05:15 What this tower actually did 06:10 On the beam: how pilots navigated 08:05 Inside the control room 09:10 Aviation overhead, then and now 10:15 Things you walk past without seeing 11:05 A bush pilot’s perspective 12:35 Why this place still matters