During the shelling aircraft spotting for the battleship reported taking heavy anti-aircraft fire to the extreme north of the target zone; subsequently, " New Jersey " altered her fire to silence the site with her big guns.
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A Royal Observer Corps aircraft spotting post was located on the north-east perimeter of the airfield during the Second World War and would have been responsible for initiating air raid warnings to the Grantham area during hostilities.
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*"'Delete "'- Plenty of mentions and discussions in blogs and forums related to aircraft spotting but the only reliable source I could find was a brief mention .-- talk ) 15 : 28, 18 August 2009 ( UTC)
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:There used to be a hobby called aircraft spotting, or something like that, which was like bird watching, except after 9 / 11, the authorities in many nations have become extremely suspicious of activities the participants thought were totally innocent.
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During the early part of World War I he was a schoolboy at The Perse School, Cambridge, but in 1917-19 he was a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service, working in hazardous early aircraft spotting submarines in the English Channel.
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Later in 1919, after the battleship experimented successfully with the use of aircraft to spot her gunfire and found that the aircraft spotters allowed her greater accuracy, Whiting testified before the General Board, attesting that aircraft spotting could increase the accuracy of ship gunnery by up to 200 percent.
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The association with Kingstown developed further in 1962 when the ROC ceased its aircraft spotting role for the RAF and took on a new role of plotting nuclear explosions and warning the public of approaching radioactive fallout for the UKWMO . A new administration building and a protected, hardened Nuclear Reporting bunker was built at RAF Carlisle.
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In early 1962 a protected nuclear fallout shelter ( or bunker ) was completed at Penarth Clifftop for the ROC " ( OS Grid Ref : ST 1858 6903 ) ", who by the 1960s had switched from above ground aircraft spotting to underground operations with instruments to detect nuclear explosions and warn the public of approaching radioactive fallout in the event of nuclear war.
