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Harry
Piskun
 
Outside Rapcon
Outdoors Aircraft Indoors Working Relaxing Certificate

a better picture of our pick-up truck, exclusively used for shift change, getting our in-flight box lunches, or used to get goodies from the beach snack-bar...if you were new to the area, we wouldn't let you drive, until you got used to driving on the "wrong side" of the road........harry

Search antenna, PAR on the end, and radio antennas, top off our trailers
the front door to my office...u-tapao rapcon ops trailer our protection--only for the scorpions and a nest of banded crates--those were the step and a halfs
a nice shot our our equipment trailers concertina wire around the rapcon area
cables to the rapcon trailer a tanker on departure, notice our pick-up truck on the left--used for shift changes
the other bunker behind the generator shack and diesel tank our living snack-bar---the banana plant outside the stand-by shack
brought in the new equipment--tpx-42 modification to the radar--really neat stuff--we knew who was the naughty or nice pilots-lets just say that santa was watching another shot of our stand-by shack where we had our meals and unwound between sorties
the klong adjacent to the rapcon the tug--used to turn the radar around when we changed runways--also used to get food from the beach snack-bar
the trailer housing the surveillance and precision approach radar
the stand-by shack with our water tower a shot of a tanker taking off from the rapcon
the palm trees on the other side of perimeter road--our back yard at the rapcon
a pic of one of our guards
more of the growth surrounding perimeter road
the captain was bored--so he planted a flower garden--told us to tred not on his garden