In 1906 the Navy established a radio station on the property and during World War II the station was expanded to include lodging for mounted beach patrols, a coastal lookout post, and a radio compass station.
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As Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels reported in 1919, " The system of radio compasses on shore . . . proved such a useful aid to navigation that during the past year additional stations have been constructed ."
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NC-4, the remaining seaplane, arrived at Ponta Delgada 20 May and as she took off for the last leg of her journey, " Harding " got underway to provide radio compass signals at sea.
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;7 January 1949 : US Army Air Force C-54G " 45-543 " crashed near Garstang, United Kingdom due to radio compass problems leading to a navigation error, killing all six on board.
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New equipment was added, which Darius and Girnas did not have, such as a variable-pitch propeller to improve engine performance and a radio compass . " Lituanica II " was test-flown extensively to ensure its success.
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On 7 September 1929, she rendered assistance to survivors of the steamer " Golden Forest ", which was wrecked on Cape Ilktugitak; she located the wreck using radio compass bearings and took aboard two men from " Golden Forest " for medical treatment.
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Employed in setting up radio compass stations along the Maine coast, she was also used as a boarding boat, meeting vessels arriving off the port of Boston . " USS Adelante " was decommissioned in August 1919 and sold in March 1920, subsequently operating as a commercial tow boat under the names " John Gully " and " Salvager ".
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McKenzie told a journalist that, after the war, " All the airmen came back and wanted to join Qantas, but they needed to build up their Morse speed and learn to use the modern equipment . " The Department of Civil Aviation fitted out a room at the school with transmitters, receivers and radio compass so that pilots could train for their wireless ticket at the school.
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There were not found any technical faults with the aircraft . The report stated that there were some shortcomings in the crews handling : a measurement for direction control had been moved to a less visible location, a radio compass was set at the wrong frequency so it received bearings from Lahti, a conversation related to the holidays with air traffic control and that the captain was not as rested as he could have been according to regulations.
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The accident was caused by the flight deck crew's failure to notice their plane's radio compass had shifted 180 degrees, most likely as a result of electrical discharges in rainfall blocking the signals emitted by Clermont-Ferrand's non-directional beacon ( NDB ), while being instructed to fly a holding pattern prior to receiving clearance to descend to 3, 600 ft . This resulted in the crew's initiating their descent too early, which set the aircraft on a collision course with the mountain.
