29.5

[Lightning Mate]

Does anyone here remember what this was:

29.5 R dot + 9000 feet.

[Herod]

No, but I'm sure you'll tell us.

[Haraka]

Then there were "The Ghosts of 29 megacycles"
Don't mock.

[Courtney Mil]

No I don't. Just a guess, was it a rule of thumb for calculating a parameter from a radar picture? Use of steering symbology in lock mode?

[safetypee]

Something out of ‘computer red’ ?
Probably not kinematic ranging as the R dot is already there.
So 29.5 R dot at Mach 2 closure (2000 ft/sec); approx … 60000ft (10 nm) + 9000ft = firing range ?
But what about ABC ?

[Courtney Mil]

That's the kind of thing I was thinking, Safety. Clues, LM?

P.S. This is a good one.

[Wholigan]

Turn in range (or range to start offset) to achieve a tail solution for early Firestreak???

OK OK I'm a mud mover, but it's an OK guess!

[CoffmanStarter]

29" + 5" = 34A cup size ... 9,000 feet ... the minimum proximity limit of my restraining order

Being a gentlemen ... I won't mention the significance of R dots

[Lord Spandex Masher]

Coffman, I'm pretty sure that would be a 29 E.

[Scruffy Fanny]

Red Top

Very Good question !
I'm thinking it must be a Red Top snap up for a head on supersonic target - that's without reference to my notes!
Does anyone have any Lightning Radar film ? -, I have a cassette from the spine of one the last Lightnings which may have some footage but still not got round to developing it ! In hope SF

[Ali Barber]

Time to go switching

[Lightning Mate]

Yes it was indeed.

If I remember it was for a Red Top stern attack when the programme switched from quasi-lead pursuit to pure pursuit.

[Yellow Sun]

Since we are re-visiting long forgotten tactics and procedures:

"Steer's in for Point Alpha, track freeze....."

Which direction do you expect to turn, by how much and where will you be when you get there?

YS

[langleybaston]

The fashionable wife of a famous footballer? On a big day?

[newt]

Ah LM !! Did that not depend on the K Factor?

[Lightning Mate]

Ah LM !! Did that not depend on the K Factor?

Ah newt!!

Was that not Firestreak?

[Jumping_Jack]

'If I remember it was for a Red Top stern attack when the programme switched from quasi-lead pursuit to pure pursuit.'

Thanks goodness. I'm not sure I would have slept tonight had I not known.....

[newt]

Not according to my memory LM!

Then I guess you do not recall the Red Top Azimuth Look Angle Limit?

[walter kennedy]

Did inches of mercury come into it?

[Courtney Mil]

Ah, the winged messenger, Walt. Supposedly he was quite well endowed, since you ask.