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Old 27th Nov 2018, 00:54
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Originally Posted by P160
The Heathrow Watchman was never at T2 or one of its "fingers". It was beside the Perry Oaks sewage farm besides the fuel tanks now the site of T5, it almost suffered a hit from an IRA Mortar shell launched from a hotel car park northside, the shell landed after bouncing off the tarmac in front of the Watchman in the Rx site where I was working at the time, I never heard a thing.
Sorry you're wrong there, the radar heads near Perry Oaks were both Marconi 264s; there definitely was a Watchman midway between T2 and runway 05/23.
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