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Events on Tuesday 26 February 1935 2
1935Daventry radar experimentRadio waves detect an aircraftRobert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins showed that radio waves reflected from a bomber could be detected, using the BBC transmitter at Daventry. The result led directly to Britain's Chain Home radar network.
1935He leaves the RAFBridlington, United KingdomDischarged at 46 with no plans, he cycled to Clouds Hill and wrote to a friend that he felt like a leaf fallen from a tree.