Keywords: vehicle aircraft outdoor airplane 80-G-707450: A new Navy flying laboratory, the PO-1W, which is a modified Lockheed “Constellation”, is being readied to conduct extensive tests of the Navy’s Airborne Early Warning radar equipment and procedures. Designated AEW, the equipment installed on Naval Aircraft permits the detection of enemy planes and surface units at much greater distances than is possible with ground-level or shipboard radar. Photograph released January 25, 1950. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/06/14). 80-G-707450: A new Navy flying laboratory, the PO-1W, which is a modified Lockheed “Constellation”, is being readied to conduct extensive tests of the Navy’s Airborne Early Warning radar equipment and procedures. Designated AEW, the equipment installed on Naval Aircraft permits the detection of enemy planes and surface units at much greater distances than is possible with ground-level or shipboard radar. Photograph released January 25, 1950. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/06/14). |