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OLD IS STILL GOLD. educate your self with this! A remarkable British WWII training film, "RDF to RADAR" (1946), chronicles the evolution of airborne scan radar from early 1.5-meter Al (Airborne Interception) sets. Crude by modern standards with limited range and manual CRT interpretation, these pioneering systems on night...

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