Originally Posted by Gordon Dennison
The 424 was not the first aerodrame radar at LBA. It was preceded by one that I cannot unfortunately remember the name of. It was a very imprecise piece of equipment, but was used for talk-downs. In those days, Air Traffic Control was located in a sort of diy glasshouse on top of the old ex-RAF Officers Mess. The radar was mounted on the roof with a sort of periscope suspended from the ceiling in the centre of the visual control room. Luckily, I did not need to validate on the equipment as it was withdrawn by CAA.
Originally Posted by link about the ARAA
The airports known to have installed ARAA are: Southend, Swansea, Leeds/Bradford, and Elstree.
Link repeated
here (to satisfy the ten character posting requirement!). Perhaps the 'sort of periscope' in
the film might jog Gordon's memory...