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1928 Commemorative Beacon on Sherman Hill. In 1923, the United States Congress funded a sequential lighted airway along the transcontinental airmail route. The lighted airway was proposed by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and deployed by the Department of Commerce. It was managed by the Bureau of Standards Aeronautical Branch.
Beacon is a city located on the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 13,769.Beacon is part of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, New York–New Jersey–Connecticut–Pennsylvania Combined Statistical Area.
An airway beacon (US) or aerial lighthouse (UK and Europe) was a rotating light assembly mounted atop a tower. These were once used extensively in the United States for visual navigation by airplane pilots along a specified airway corridor. In Europe, they were used to guide aircraft with lighted beacons at night.
In wireless networks, a beacon is a type of frame which is sent by the access point (or WiFi router) to indicate that it is on. Bluetooth based beacons periodically send out a data packet and this could be used by software to identify the beacon location. This is typically used by indoor navigation and positioning applications.
US: External ARTCC subset. (Block of discrete codes except that xx00 is used as a non-discrete code after all discrete codes are assigned.) 1100 US: Non-discrete code assignments in accordance with FAA Order JO 7110.65, 5-2. Also for use in oceanic airspace unless another code is assigned by ATC. US: External ARTCC subset.
Beacon 23. Beacon 23 is an American science fiction psychological thriller television series created by Zak Penn, based on the short story series of the same name by Hugh Howey. Starring Lena Headey and Stephan James, it is a co-production between Spectrum and Boat Rocker Media.
In navigation, a radio beacon or radiobeacon is a kind of beacon, a device that marks a fixed location and allows direction-finding equipment to find relative bearing. But instead of employing visible light, radio beacons transmit electromagnetic radiation in the radio wave band. They are used for direction-finding systems on ships, aircraft ...
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