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At 05:32 AM 9/28/01 -0700, you wrote:
>POP:: (Percy old Pal!)
>As you might recall; N6596Q was tracked on its trip to the Northland
>throughout the entire trip from
>Barrow AK to Key West FL with an installed tracker, that had its own
>particular identification, and did
>not impact flight service or ATC. and anybody with a computer could
track
>it! So, this technology is
>nothing new.
Exactamundo, Wayne.
The North American Air Defence Command had to be able to find the
Russian bombers coming over
the poles back in the 1950-1960 time frame. They didn't say "Bear 6596,
squack 7123 and ident."
Which bums me. My thinking is that NORAD didn't want to tell the FAA how
to do it, because the
word might leak out. As if the Russians could not figure it out. So the
FAA did it the old way = tell
the civil fleet they had to put an altitude encoding transponder in or
else.
The computer part is new, however.
Percy in
Portland
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