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Old 27th Apr 2018, 14:23
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Originally Posted by India Four Two The Flight article refers to "Watford or Epsom ranges". Were there really radio ranges in the UK in 1960 or did Uncle Roger have a momentary lapse?
I can't find any mention of radio ranges in the excellent Piket/Bish history of LHR ATC. Watford and Epsom were, of course, the two original holding stacks for Heathrow.
Having read this I thought I'll Google this and I found this link to Pprune Old Airways Charts and even more amazing guess who wrote that!

The Kilburn intersection was the point where the 2 range signals met over the Kilburn High Road just South of Kilburn underground station.
Epsom range had probably the strongest signal of any radio aid in the U.K. showed at 120 n. miles on a Rebecca set
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