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The old BIA radar tower is taken down so that a new tower could be built to meet international standards.
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The merged entity's corporate headquarters were originally located at Redhill, Surrey, the location of the old BIA head office.
In addition to the main maintenance base at Norwich Airport ( Air Anglia's former engineering base ), there also used to be a second major maintenance base at Blackpool Airport ( the old BIA engineering base ).
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In the early 1980s a group of researchers interested in the history of Iram used NASA remote sensing satellites, ground penetrating radar, Landsat program data and images taken from the Space Shuttle Challenger as well as SPOT data to identify old camel train routes and points where they converged.
Image: Cape Range National Park DSC04160. JPG | An old WWII radar tower with the Vlamingh Head Lighthouse behind
In 1978 Sperry Rand, an old fashioned conglomerate of disharmonious divisions ( computers, typewriters, office furniture, hay balers, manure spreaders, gyroscopes, avionics, radar, electric razors ), decided to concentrate on its computing interests and unrelated divisions were sold.
If an 18 year old joins and is successful then they will have to be posted to an Area course which will ensure they are 21 years old on graduation, thus old enough to hold a radar licence.
After the Second World War he began work in the new field of radio astronomy, using an old radar antenna from the Germans.
* The old record was a 257-268 mph wind measurement from a Doppler weather radar near Red Rock, Oklahoma, as reported in a formal publication by Bluestein et al.
Air traffic control systems gradually evolved from the old sweeping radar to modern computer-driven systems showing maps, weather info, airplane routes and digitized radar tracks on an ergonomic console.
Another tourist spot is the local Balnakeil Craft Village, a rather picturesque old Royal Air Force ( RAF ) radar base from the Cold War era.
On Christmas Eve, the captain would use his onboard radar to track Santa's progress as the jolly old elf made his international rounds.
In the first half of the 1990s the transmitting aerial of the old tower was removed and replaced by a radome holding air traffic control radar equipment.
The Report, 1, 485 pages in hardcover and 965 pages in paperback, divided UFO cases into five categories: old UFO reports from before the Committee convened, new reports, photographic cases, radar / visual cases, and UFOs reported by astronauts.
With the assistrance of the German scientist Dr. Wagner the group conceived, built and tested a computer that would take the information from a tracking radar and provide the course for a LOON missile ( the old German V-1 ) to fly to a designated target.
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Slowly, like a man grown old, he took Eli's hand and led him below to the tower study, guiding him to a chair beside the little hearth where a fire still burned.
By the autumn of 1855, the royal apartments were ready, though the tower was still under construction and the servants had to be lodged in the old house.
Pildammsparken with the old water tower.
The photo shows the old building with the addition of the Elevator to the exterior of the structure with the close up of the modern art tower
alt = A wide shot of an old English school with a central tower, a sports pitch is seen in the foreground.
In 1846, St James church was considerably repaired, a steeple replacing the old tower.
Also imposing is the view from the 57 metre high tower of the Frauenkirche ( Church of Our Lady ), situated in the old market-place.
* The church of San Pietro Apostolo, simply called " San Pietro's Church ", just existing in 12th century, but with the actual Baroque façade and bell tower, situated in the old town, at the begin of the street of the some name, near the Municipio Square.
* The fortress with its keep and its 16th century bell tower protects Terra-Nova and offers great views over the old port, Terra Vecchia, the mountain and the coast.
At the strategically important junction of the two arms of the Old Rhine stands the old castle de Burcht, a circular tower built on an earthen mound.
April 2008 a 37 year old Durban man, Carl Mosca Dionisio, made bungy jump history when he jumped off of a 30m / 100ft tower attached to a bungy cord made entirely of condoms.
In 1200, a fire destroyed part of the old Romanesque cathedral, leaving St Romain's tower, the side porches of the front, and part of the nave.
Han van Meegeren designed this boat-house ( the building left, adjoining an old tower in the town wall ) for his Rowing Club D. D. S.
The late Gothic church of St. Wolfgang, near Hünenberg, or St. Oswald in Zug, the old town of Zug with the Town Hall and the Clock tower, the Huwiler Tower, the ‘ Zurlaubenhof ’, feudal estate of the family Zurlauben, on the outskirts of the city – all encourage discovery of the unknown.
The walk up the Tor to the distinctive tower at the summit ( the partially restored remains of an old church ) is rewarded by vistas of the mid-Somerset area, including the Levels which are drained marshland.
An old semaphore tower, relief of the former Landau ( and later Strasbourg ) to Paris semaphore line, can be seen in the vicinity.
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An old street in Bruges, with the Church of Our Lady tower in the background.
A new clock and bell tower, the Nicholas A. Vacc Bell Tower, was constructed in 2005 on the site of the old University Bell, at the corner of College Avenue and Spring Garden Street.
The lighthouse of Calais ( Le phare de Calais ) was built in 1848, replacing the old watch tower as the lighthouse of the port.
Cumhall is reputed to be buried within the grounds of Castleknock College, ( an all-boys secondary school in Dublin 15 ), supposedly under a hill upon which an old water tower now stands.
The 1793 tower has been unused since 1997, with the light on 36-foot hexagonal / cylindrical tower adjacent to the old generator house.
Much of Hornsey was built up in Edwardian times, but the tower of the original parish church still stands in its ancient graveyard in Hornsey High Street, at the centre of the old village.
In Waterfall Road is Christ Church, a building of stone which has a tower and spire and was built in 1862 by Sir Gilbert Scott, In the grounds stands the Minchenden Oak, said to be the largest oak tree in England, and perhaps 800 years old.
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It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.
But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.
Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.
Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.
It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.
but they can hardly deny that, exaggerated or not, the old panorama is dead.
One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.
It is a total situation that is defended: the `` good old days ''.
But The Holy Sinner is not simply a retelling of old stories for an old man's entertainment.
Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.
The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.
One is that there sometimes are real although inadequate compensations in growing old.
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.
The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.
Seen in decorating circles of late is a renewed interest in an old art: embroidery.
It is not as convenient as the old type toothbrush and the paste tends to shimmy off the bristles.
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