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Old 5th Aug 2011, 15:34
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chevvron
 
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Ah the T82. I used one at Lindholme as well as remote radars. It was 10cm non MTI with a blank area in the overhead, and strangely the famous 'Midland Radar overhead' was always bigger than other T82s like Lindholme and Watton.
Being a stacked beam receiver array, it didn't need a separate height finding radar like Sopley (T80).
Originally it was never intended for ATC use; with Luffenham being a Thor ICBM base along with two other local airfields, they were protected by a Bloodhound SAM base just next to the A1 at Woolfox Lodge, with the T82 being intended to track incoming targets for the Bloodhounds to engage. The Lindholme one could see traffic climbing out of Amsterdam above about FL100, and they frequently called us at this level!
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