Locating vintage aircraft involved years of detective work and lured museum employees to some odd locations.
Military uses have included locating submarines and aircraft.
The purpose of the post was to detect radio transmissions from German spies in the United States and assist in locating downed aircraft.
The disadvantage of all radar and radio transmitting systems is that attacking forces can locate aircraft by picking up transmissions.
The tower receives a radar feed from the Fall City ARSR to supplement radio communication and binoculars to locate aircraft in its airspace.
Commercial Air Hire had a contract to fly at night to give searchlight crews practice at locating aircraft.
There, Tharp met Heezen and their early work together used photographic data to locate downed aircraft from World War II.
The "floodlight" nature of the Chain Home transmissions provided a pair of signals which could be used to locate aircraft.
He became interested in radar and was one of the first to recognize its potential to locate ships and aircraft, and perhaps even track shells in flight.
Parsons immediately recognized the potential of the new invention to locate ships and aircraft, and perhaps even track shells in flight.