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English: Lieutenant Frank Akers (wearing flight helmet) shows Rear Admiral Ernest J. King (wearing civilian hat), the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, the cockpit of the OJ-2 in which he performed the Navy’s first demonstration of a blind landing system intended for use on board aircraft carriers. He made the landing “under the hood” at College Park, Maryland.
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Source US Navy History Website at: http://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/navys-first-blind-flight/
Author US Navy

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1 May 1934

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