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Out of date radar

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I was astonished because I

I mean, that's one thing I'm very grateful

my education because we learned

And I was disappointed.

My maths, I think,

to do radar,

But never mind.

Another interesting thing, that

a course, a defence system called AB,

and there was a beam of sound,

radio waves, right?

Particularly down the eastern side

and they would give out a signal of.

We would say dit da dit

would be a small sound, da would be a long sound,

and in the middle there

And that would guide any aeroplanes,

who knew that frequency, that.

That when they were coming in on the right

Now, really, because of the brilliance

machine, radar was in use.

And really, the beam approach

you know, I don't think that it was used.

But nevertheless, in 1940,

early in 1947 or 1946,

I was sent on a course back to Cranwell

I never understood why,

I never followed it up afterwards,

beam approach station would be.

I was probably expecting to be

But it seemed a bit of bad planning to me

that was already out of date.

But there we are.

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