Occasionally I like to search for places I haven't been. While in the US navy, my job was to maintain GCA RADAR (ground controlled approach) A couple or three places I was always glad I didn't get stationed is Adak, or Kodiak, Alaska, and "Gitmo" Cuba
So I found some "stuff" on Adak (now abandoned by the military and turned over to the natives up there) and found this webpage:
http://wfparker.blogspot.com/2010/03/technical-adak.html
the old GCA radar unit:
a shot of what a GCA scope looks like: Search RADAR on top, Az/El on bottom (azimuth, elevation---top half is elevation, shows aircraft on/ above/ below glideslope out from 10 miles, and bottom half, azimuth, shows left/ right of courseline)
And I was looking at aerial shots of the landing field and found ..............THIS
So I found some "stuff" on Adak (now abandoned by the military and turned over to the natives up there) and found this webpage:
http://wfparker.blogspot.com/2010/03/technical-adak.html
the old GCA radar unit:
a shot of what a GCA scope looks like: Search RADAR on top, Az/El on bottom (azimuth, elevation---top half is elevation, shows aircraft on/ above/ below glideslope out from 10 miles, and bottom half, azimuth, shows left/ right of courseline)
And I was looking at aerial shots of the landing field and found ..............THIS
