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Stretchwell

27th Apr 2018 00:40

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Originally Posted by wiggy (Post 5002243)

Well at least one JP landed at Barkston in the late 80's with, somehow, the QFI thinking he was landing at Cranwell.......

To be fair said QFI was commendably honest, it had been a long hard week, and the QFI's (acting ) Flight Commander was suitably sympathetic :D :D

Are you here Shakey :ok:

i was there in the crew room ! He fined himself the entire Pig’s Board. Lovely chap.

DaveReidUK

27th Apr 2018 06:53

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Originally Posted by India Four Two (Post 10131239)

The Flight article refers to "Watford or Epsom ranges". Were there really radio ranges in the UK in 1960 or did Uncle Roger have a momentary lapse?

I can't find any mention of radio ranges in the excellent Piket/Bish history of LHR ATC. Watford and Epsom were, of course, the two original holding stacks for Heathrow.

Pom Pax

27th Apr 2018 14:23

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Quote :DaveReidUK

Originally Posted by India Four Two https://www.pprune.org/images/buttons/viewpost.gifThe Flight article refers to "Watford or Epsom ranges". Were there really radio ranges in the UK in 1960 or did Uncle Roger have a momentary lapse?

I can't find any mention of radio ranges in the excellent Piket/Bish history of LHR ATC. Watford and Epsom were, of course, the two original holding stacks for Heathrow.

Having read this I thought I'll Google this and I found this link to Pprune https://www.pprune.org/aviation-hist...ml#post1466527 and even more amazing guess who wrote that!

The Kilburn intersection was the point where the 2 range signals met over the Kilburn High Road just South of Kilburn underground station.
Epsom range had probably the strongest signal of any radio aid in the U.K. showed at 120 n. miles on a Rebecca set

ZOOKER

27th Apr 2018 20:06

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Apologies. I don't have a date for this, but it came via PPRuNe a while back.

ZOOKER

27th Apr 2018 20:12

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And a later chart from the 1960s, courtesy of '[email protected]'.

Danny42C

27th Apr 2018 20:45

Around 1952 was flying a 608 (Aux) Squadron Vampire one Sunday afternoon. Vis very poor,. Doing a QGH (04 Safety Lane inbound) into Thornaby,, spotted "Airfield in Sight" , over to Local, join, downwind, finals, land ........ (Thornaby Local hadn't seen me, was reading Sunday paper through all this).

Oops! - had to do a roller - airborne again, had to ask Thornaby Local: "Call SDO at MSG for me, apologise, I've just done a roller there by mistake!" ,,,, Loud catcalls and guffaws on R/T.

(Well, the runway patterns were identical, same hangars, and they were only six miles apart) ..... 608 Boss livid ! .... Ah, well. Danny.

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