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Old 29th Nov 2018, 07:07
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Radar towers to the best of my knowledge have never been constructed with mechanical fuse pins to make them frangible due to the tremendous side loads imposed on the structure during high winds and also because they are usually well offset from the direction of travel so to speak. The only frangible airfield installation I came across was the STAN 37 Localiser which had aluminium fuse pins between the ground mounting bolts and the lattice uprights.
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