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Old 25th Jun 2014, 08:09
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Re "drunken chopsticks" in the mid fifties some of the Meteor F8s on the squadron were fitted with "Appendix", a bit of kit intended for use to home on a target jamming the fighter control frequency. In those far off days, for exercise purposes, a Lincoln with an open mike in one of the engine cowlings transmitting over the airwaves became a very effective jammer. Keep the chopsticks central and the Lincoln eventually came into view - or not if you were flying away from it! When the fighter got close the technique was to bank vertically for a few seconds and you could see from the instrument if the target was relatively higher or lower than yourself. Oh what fun we had when flying in cloud and the AH toppled.
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