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Re: More again about airborne radio traffic reports?
- Subject: Re: More again about airborne radio traffic reports?
- From: Dan.Strassberg@att.net
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:43:16 +0000
Gee,I think that in 1958, 1260 was still WVDA. I don't
think that Air Trails bought it and flipped the calls to
WEZE until maybe a year leter.
>>:
>>:BUT--- I just found a news clipping that was quite interesting
to me. From
>>:Variety, 25 June 1958 (!) It says, "John Burns of WEZE now doing
airborne
>>:traffic reports from a plane." Does this ring any bells with anyone?
It
>>:certainly places airborne traffic reporting before Bruce Talford
did it in
>>:1961-- in every article I had read till I found the Variety clipping,
Bruce
>>:was usually the person credited with being the first to do traffic
from the
>>:sky... I had no idea WEZE was doing anything like that in 1958...
>>:
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>-Eli
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