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  2. Storm Hawks - Wikipedia

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    Radarr comes up to about Aerrow's hip; most people believe Radarr is around 3 feet and some odd inches, making it possible for Aerrow and Stork to be in the 6 foot range. Radarr (voiced by Asaph Fipke) — Aerrow's close friend and co-pilot, Radarr is a vaguely rabbit/lemur-like creature of indeterminate origin (though bears a noticeable ...

  3. Secondary surveillance radar - Wikipedia

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    Secondary surveillance radar antenna (flat rectangle, top) mounted on an ASR-9 primary airport surveillance radar antenna (curved rectangle, bottom).. The need to be able to identify aircraft more easily and reliably led to another wartime radar development, the Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system, which had been created as a means of positively identifying friendly aircraft from unknowns.

  4. History of radar - Wikipedia

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    Until the 1990s, there were 128 of the WSR-57 and WSR-74 model radars were spread across that country. The first devices to capture radar images were developed during the same period. The number of scanned angles was increased to get a three-dimensional view of the precipitation, so that horizontal cross-sections ( CAPPI ) and vertical ones ...

  5. Radar tracker - Wikipedia

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    Typically a new track is given the status of tentative until plots from subsequent radar updates have been successfully associated with the new track. Tentative tracks are not shown to the operator and so they provide a means of preventing false tracks from appearing on the screen - at the expense of some delay in the first reporting of a track.

  6. Tethered Aerostat Radar System - Wikipedia

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    Download coordinates as: ... until the US Congress in 1991 and 1992 ... the operations and maintenance cost per site was reduced from $6 million in fiscal year 1992 ...

  7. Ground delay program - Wikipedia

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    Ground delay programs (GDP) can affect various sections of the United States' airspace, as well as airports in Canada. That is because Nav Canada inherited the agreement between the FAA and Transport Canada that the Ground Delay Program would be implemented for departures from Canadian airports. GDPs are always assigned a "scope" and to a ...

  8. Over-the-horizon radar - Wikipedia

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    MADRE over-the-horizon radar at the NRL's Chesapeake Bay Detachment U.S. Navy Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar station. The most common type of OTH radar, OTH-B (backscatter), [3] uses skywave or "skip" propagation, in which shortwave radio waves are refracted off an ionized layer in the atmosphere, the ionosphere, and return to Earth some distance away.

  9. Doppler radar - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Army soldier using a radar gun, an application of Doppler radar, to catch speeding violators.. A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that uses the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance. [1]