THE WORLD SEES RADAR
BRITAXN GIVES DEMONSTRA'ilON Last, week represeutatives of 21 countries uttended a demonstration at a British airfield of war-tinie radar devices applicable to peace-thne aviation. The demonstration included seven R.A.F. radar aml radio control systems, and tlie fafnous decca navigator. for wliich a liig c.ontract is already made for installation througliout France nnd Ihe Freneli colonies. Prot'essor Randall, inventor of the •avity niagnetron, dnring tlie week' told the Royal Air Foree Society of Arts that radar was itlie scientilic devel opment that contributed most to win1111" tlie *"a- »ven reekouing the aton> bomb. Randall mentioned that among British radar inventions was an air intoreeption device enabling enemy bombers to be found and destroyed in tlie dark, oue wliich faeilitates blind bombing, and H2S. wliich provided an actiial man in the plune of tlie ground below. IRadar perfected the Royal Navy's gun-laying, as at the Matapan battle, and undoubtedly saved the great ships Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Randall pointed to the lirgpiit at-'nntio" Britain is giving to the adaptation of radar to peace-time uses in ships and planes. Recent successful British denionstrations of the use of radar in coastal navigation will bet reealled in this contieetion.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 March 1946, Page 3
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