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In the AV-8B, pilots used the TACAN in the air-to-air mode and thus received ranging from their wingman.
A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010
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Even my TACAN needle spinneth from time to time like a crazy monkey and I fell into dispair ... and Lo!
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Project Heavy Green (the Air Force troops supporting Site 85 and the TACAN site support).
Alen, Henry L. 1990
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Radios provided UHF, FM, and HF communications capability; an ADF receiver tracked non-directional radio beacons, and a TACAN unit offered more sophisticated electronic navigation.
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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We were told that both had been following a bogus TACAN signal in the fog, and both crashed on the same hillside.
Uplinger, Barton J. 1968
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At 1915H this aircraft was declared overdue and missing after being last reported at 092 degrees/20 nautical miles from TACAN Channel #69 enroute to
Uplinger, Barton J. 1968
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The Commissioner rejected the explanations he had heard to the effect that Captain Simpson's information seemed to point to quite a minor movement to the up-dated position of the TACAN.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81 New Zealand. Court of Appeal
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A different matter was considered by the Commissioner in relation to the change made in November 1979 to move the waypoint back to the TACAN at
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81 New Zealand. Court of Appeal
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Navigation Section knew quite well that the McMurdo waypoint lay 27 miles to the west of the TACAN and that since his track had not officially been approved by the Civil Aviation Division it should therefore be realigned with the TACAN and then someone forgot to ensure that Captain Collins was told of the change.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81 New Zealand. Court of Appeal
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The MIDS JTRS adds three programmable channels to the legacy Link-16 and TACAN capabilities of the MIDS-LVT.
unknown title 2011
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