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Old 14th Jun 2012, 13:49
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GrumpyGramps
 
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Saxa Vord radar

In the early 1990's I was a coastguard in Aberdeen. We occasionally asked RAF Saxa Vord to tilt their radar down to look for shipping contacts etc. After a particularly violent storm which left the Aberdeen anemometer broken at 100kts plus, Saxa Vord rang to say they had lost their radar. "When do you expect to get it back on line?" "You don't understand. We've LOST our radar. It blew away over the cliff!"
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