[Milsurplus] BC-455-B UK Standard Beam Approach

[C.Whitaker]

de WB2CPN
I 've always thought of the Lorenz system being for
navigation, not for being placed at airfields for landing.
I doubt that anyone "homed in" on a target.  I'd go
straight after the IP, but make a wiggly track up until
that point.
The Germans developed some nice radar and Nav
systems, and all we had was the SCS-51.  I maintained
an SCS-51 at Templehof in Berlin starting in 1946, and
it was an unstable thing.  The marker beacons were on
Jeeps.  Later, the MRN-7 and 8 also used the idea of
mechanical modulators, but the CAA (FAA now) went for
a completly different method of generating sidebands.  
Trivia:  We used a couple or more of the CAA Localizers
in Germany during the famour Berlin Airlift.  I helped
install and maintain them for a while.  Strange, but the
Specifications on our MRN-7 and 8 said their expected
life was in excess of 1000 hours.   It's in the T.O.
End of Trivia.