Comments - MIT Radiation Laboratory - Gaia Community2024-03-29T07:49:24Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A32515&xn_auth=noWith the departure of US pe…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2019-03-05:5313775:Comment:354292019-03-05T22:53:35.437ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With the departure of US personnel at the end of the Second World War, the Allied Central Interpretation Unit at RAF Medmenham reverted to its original title, the Central Interpretation Unit. In 1953 it became the <strong><a href="https://ncap.org.uk/JARIC" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre</a></strong> (JARIC). </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With the departure of US personnel at the end of the Second World War, the Allied Central Interpretation Unit at RAF Medmenham reverted to its original title, the Central Interpretation Unit. In 1953 it became the <strong><a href="https://ncap.org.uk/JARIC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre</a></strong> (JARIC). </span></p>
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<p></p> Radio Frequency Heating as…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2019-02-12:5313775:Comment:355252019-02-12T10:02:36.786ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.biscuitpeople.com/magazine/post/radio-frequency-heating"><b>Radio Frequency Heating</b></a> as applied to frozen animals that were being used for research purposes, allowed for heating the animals from the inside out, which worked like a dream as a result of my development of …</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.biscuitpeople.com/magazine/post/radio-frequency-heating"><b>Radio Frequency Heating</b></a> as applied to frozen animals that were being used for research purposes, allowed for heating the animals from the inside out, which worked like a dream as a result of my development of <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2342073335820904" target="_self">a system based on a magnetron</a></strong>, that I had borrowed from the Navy, which allowed me to make what was in effect a small microwave oven • rather than continuing to use the old fashioned equipment of the time that were based on radio valves etc.</span></p>
<p><span><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/main/search/search?q=James+Lovelock&page=1"><b>James Lovelock<br/><br/></b></a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b> Electron capture detector developed by James Lovelock in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Museum,_London" title="Science Museum, London">Science Museum, London</a></b></span></p>
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<p></p> After the war, in 1954, a ma…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2018-01-27:5313775:Comment:324152018-01-27T12:42:23.928ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">After the war, in 1954, a major [RE]engineering of the war-time site occurred when it became known formally as Royal Air Force Sopley, the home of Southern Radar & the <strong>Joint Air Traffic Control School</strong>. The radar station was housed in a deep underground bunker under a field adjacent to the war time radar station, whilst quarters were built in Bransgore for its married personnel and a large domestic site was constructed between…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">After the war, in 1954, a major [RE]engineering of the war-time site occurred when it became known formally as Royal Air Force Sopley, the home of Southern Radar & the <strong>Joint Air Traffic Control School</strong>. The radar station was housed in a deep underground bunker under a field adjacent to the war time radar station, whilst quarters were built in Bransgore for its married personnel and a large domestic site was constructed between Bransgore and Sopley next to the site of Merryfield farm. <br/><br/><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133728494?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133728494?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="721" class="align-full"/></a><br/>During the 1960s and 1970s civil and military air traffic control officers worked and trained together at the site which also retained an air defence and special tasks role including that of supporting Research and Development flying programmes from Farnborough and Boscombe Down and the early Concorde flight trials. [IT] was in 1967 that I completed my <strong>Joint Military/Civil Area Radar <em>training</em></strong> at Sopley and in 1968 provided Summer Leave Relief on secondment duties from London Radar. I remember during that time providing assistance to an Aer Lingus flight en-route from Cardiff to Dublin • who got caught in bad-weather • by a process of guiding the pilot around and between the rain clouds, because of the phenomenally detailed accuracy of the Type 80 radar, in the detection of weather. <span>In addition to the Type 80 the station retained its type 7 and had both type 13 heightfinders and type 14 high and low radars. It also received a Marconi 264 radar, later used at Aberdeen Airport. The 264 was only finally retired from service at Aberdeen in 1998.</span><br/><br/>With the full opening of the <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=419831251378465" target="_blank" rel="noopener">London Air Traffic Control Centre</a></strong>, at West Drayton, Southern radar was one of several Air Traffic Control units that were surplus to requirements and Royal Air Force Sopley closed in 1974. Available on this site is the text and graphics from the <a href="http://www.winkton.net/RAF%20Sopley%20pages/brochure.htm"><strong>RAF Sopley Visitors Guide</strong></a> from (I think) 1964. <span>The Area Radar School at RAF Sopley moved to <strong><a href="https://www.raf.mod.uk/rafshawbury/aboutus/catcs.cfm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RAF Shawbury</a></strong> in 1972 to become the <strong>Area Radar Training School</strong>, bringing all ATC training under CATCS. <br/><br/>In 1997, with the creation of the Flight Operations branch, the training of Flight Ops Officers was also added to the CATCS portfolio. TG9 Flight Ops Assistants, previosly named Assistant Air Traffic Controllers, have also been trained at Shawbury since the end of WWII. TG9 graduates continue to provide direct support to aircrew, controllers and operations managers.</span><br/><br/><br/></span></p>
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