Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guardia operator watched his screen helplessly, the two blips continued for a second or so on collision course. Then there was one pinpoint where there had been two: the TWA signal had vanished from the radar screen, and the second blip crept on its northeasterly course for eight miles. Then it, too, disappeared...
...miles south of Linden. As traffic moved, ARTC controllers directed the TWA plane to drop to 5,000 ft. and then, proceeding under control of La Guardia, to swing northeastward into the prescribed Instrument Landing System beam (ILS) to La Guardia's Runway 4 (see map). To the radar watchers the Connie appeared to be following the routine instructions...
Second, Melman said, is the possibility of human error, of "wrongly estimating the intentions of others." He cited a recent incident where radar signals bouncing off the moon were mistaken for incoming Russian missiles...
...Ministry gave Tizard charge of a four-man committee to study British air defense. The group soon made a far-reaching recommendation: put every ounce of British brainpower into developing radar. Then Lindemann landed on the committee as Churchill's delegate. For a solid year, he argued so savagely for his own gadgety notions (infrared detection of enemy planes, aerial parachute mines) that at one point the committee broke up. Costly Victory. Tizard pressed on, and radar was ready in time to help win the Battle of Britain. But the feud had just begun. When Churchill became Prime Minister...
...discovery that the order does not involve any immediate separation of families already overseas-only their replacements. But Air Force and Army brass, defending their way of life, hurried to point out that an oasis like Wiesbaden is an inspiration to men stuck with unattractive assignments at a Turkish radar site or a missile battery on a remote German mountain-they feel a three-day pass to glorious Wiesbaden makes it all worthwhile...