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Tocsin 6th Jan 2022 20:15

Thanks, ORAC - some more good reading!

tartare 6th Jan 2022 20:57


Originally Posted by ORAC (Post 11166168)
Just to bring it to the top again. You needed something the size of the Vulcan just to carry the kit let alone the bomb….

Tatjana van Vark ~ Navigation and Bombing System NBS

...I was thinking of just this.
Incredible piece of kit.
And in a bizarre small world co-incidence, Tatjana is a relative of one of our friends in Melbourne!

Barksdale Boy 6th Jan 2022 23:03

I suspect that PN was referring to Blue Steel. Timelord has it about right in respect of the free-fall nav radar's job, not least because it sounds as though he was one.


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