Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my wor...
by omegaham on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @09:01PM
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I worked in an ATC tower with the Marines, and we used the AN/FPN-63 as our precision approach radar. It came into existence around 1958, I believe. The scopes looked something like this, but even more primitive: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/PAR_Scop...
It was maintained with duct tape, gummi bears, and black magic, as the suppliers for said parts had long, long since gone out of business.
It was maintained with duct tape, gummi bears, and black magic, as the suppliers for said parts had long, long since gone out of business.