From Mon Dec 22 10:43:48 1997
>Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:41:25 -0800
>From: Mike Potter
>Organization: Artecon, Inc.
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>Cc: mahan@microworks.net
>Subject: Re: Destroying the Königsberg, 1914-15
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>Merry Christmas Kevin,
>
>Citing your excellent =Königsberg: A German East African Raider= as my
>primary source, I recently contributed a short account of the Königsberg
>operation to Mahan.lst, an Internet discussion list about naval history
>and events. Here is one of several replies.
>
> From your book, it seems clear that the spotters used wireless
>telegraphy as Dr Francis suggests. Have you any information about the
>electronics on the aircraft?
>
> > Does anyone have any more details on exactly how the British seaplanes
> > “spotted” for the Royal Navy? The Farman and the Caudron were early
> > planes, had they been fitted with streaming aerials or something? Did
> > they use wireless, perhaps some sort of morse code? I’ve always been
> > under the impression that aerial spotting doesn’t become reliable until
> > the 1920s.
> >
> > Timothy L. Francis
> > Historian
> > Naval Historical Center
> > email address: Francis.Timothy@nhc.navy.mil
> > voice: (202) 433-6802

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