It was a move with unprecedented risks — "a complete brain transplant over a four-hundred-million-mile radio link," as one team paper put it — and any error could have meant losing the spacecraft.
It was a move with unprecedented risks—"a complete brain transplant over a four-hundred-million-mile radio link," as one team paper put it and any error could have meant losing the spacecraft.
Now you can see them a mile away, radio the rangers and say, 'Just go this way.'" .
In 1982 Le Mesurier reprised the role of Arthur Wilson for It Sticks Out Half a Mile, a radio sequel to Dad's Army, in which Wilson had become bank manager of the Frambourne-on-Sea branch, while Arthur Lowe's character, Captain George Mainwaring, was trying to apply for a loan to renovate the local pier.
It had gone 400 miles, its radio was in better shape and its motor had been tuned up.
Based four miles offshore, Radio London numbered among its DJs Tony Blackburn, John Peel, Kenny Everett and Dave Cash, who gave him the nickname "Stewpot".
That system, which is expected to become available in 2004, can cover a range of one to two miles using radio frequency technology, the company says.
With compact antennas and ranges of up to 30 miles, the radio used unexplored high frequencies that enabled the military to conduct surveillance behind enemy lines as well.
But with Northwest Flight 188, which landed safely, they are tackling a different puzzle: what went on in the cockpit to cause it to fly for 500 miles without radio contact, and well beyond its destination?
The three leading suppliers of those sensors designed them so that they can be made to give spoof readings, or even be shut down with a relatively cheap 40-mile-range radio transmitter, says Penagos. "We can show total shutdown of the plant," he says.
He has co-produced prize-winning documentaries like "Breaking the Cycle: How Do We Stop Child Abuse" (1989) and "Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project" (1999), and cultural programs like "The Miles Davis Radio Project" (1991 and 2001) and "Lost and Found Sound" (1999-2001).
