What is "radio beacons"

Usage examples of "radio beacons".

He knew that they were marker poles, with tiny radio beacons at their tips.

And the invisible landmarks, the VOR and VORTAC radio beacons, the outer, middle, and inner VHP Marker Beacons, were gone, too.

Pheylan felt his stomach tighten, remembering how the Zhirrzh ships after theJutland battle had used the honeycomb escape pods' emergency radio beacons to lock in their lasers.

They discovered fire and the wheel and the use of radio frequencies by transforming them into touch, and soon large areas of their planet were covered with radio beacons, which enabled them to undertake long journeys using mechanical transport.

Huddled up against it are bins full of ball drops, highflyers, radio beacons—.

The radio beacons still might be too far away for an accurate fix.

The larger man, who was apparently the dilatory trainer Bob Smith, said his hellos and goodbyes to the passengers, and stood watching afterwards while I started the engine and taxied back to the other end of the strip to turn into wind for take-of[ The flight north was uneventful: I went up the easy way under the Amber One airway, navigating on the radio beacons at Daventry, Lichfield and Oldham.

Using radio beacons set up in each chamber, coordinating through the V/STOL's guidance computers, he could tell his position within a few centimeters.