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SEEING EYE DRONE. This 

 close-up view of the plexi- 

 glass nose of a B-17 drone 

 plane shows a television cam- 

 era in the position normally 

 occupied by the bombsight. 

 Shown checking equipment 

 is Captain Renee Dussaq, 

 flight technician. Television 

 relayed what the drone plane 

 "saw" to television receivers 

 miles away; the received 

 images were studied by sci- 

 entists and recorded on mo- 

 tion picture film. Televised 

 images of the drone's instru- 

 ment panel helped the re- 

 mote-control personnel keep 

 the drones flying smoothly. 



SPOTLIGHT ON ELEC- 

 TRONICS. A battery of heat 

 lamps serves to dry out elec- 

 tronic equipment used at 

 Bikini. High humidity, a 

 principal source of discom- 

 fort to men, plays havoc with 

 delicate electronic devices 

 such as those shown. Fungus 

 grows on connections and in- 

 sulation, attacks circuit com- 

 ponents, and changes their 

 electrical properties. The ef- 

 fect on instrument perform- 

 ance may be very harmful — 

 to an extent first fully real- 

 ized by our Armed Forces 

 when the ground fighting be- 

 gan in the Pacific theatre in 

 1942. 



