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James Holland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4177 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

It is interesting technology such as identification friend or foe, IFF, which is where you have a little pulse. So you have these control rooms, and you have a map table, and you have a tote board in front of you where you can see what squadrons are airborne, what state of readiness they're at, whether they're engaging the enemy. Little lights come on and show you. You can see weather maps.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

It is interesting technology such as identification friend or foe, IFF, which is where you have a little pulse.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So you have these control rooms, and you have a map table, and you have a tote board in front of you where you can see what squadrons are airborne, what state of readiness they're at, whether they're engaging the enemy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Little lights come on and show you.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You can see weather maps.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You can see it. You see the cloud ceiling. You see all that at a glance. Then you're on a dais, and then down in front of you is a massive great map of southern England. You've got Krupia's kind of moving plots.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You can see it. You see the cloud ceiling. You see all that at a glance. Then you're on a dais, and then down in front of you is a massive great map of southern England. You've got Krupia's kind of moving plots.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You can see it. You see the cloud ceiling. You see all that at a glance. Then you're on a dais, and then down in front of you is a massive great map of southern England. You've got Krupia's kind of moving plots.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You can see it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You see the cloud ceiling.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You see all that at a glance.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Then you're on a dais, and then down in front of you is a massive great map of southern England.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You've got croupiers, sort of moving plots.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So you can, through a combination of radar, which picks up a kind of a rough idea of what's coming towards you, combined with the observer core, you have overlapping observer core stations all over Britain, covering every single inch of airspace over Britain, looking up into the air and seeing how many aircraft there are, and at what height they are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So you can, through a combination of radar, which picks up a kind of a rough idea of what's coming towards you, combined with the observer core, you have overlapping observer core stations all over Britain, covering every single inch of airspace over Britain, looking up into the air and seeing how many aircraft there are, and at what height they are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So you can, through a combination of radar, which picks up a kind of a rough idea of what's coming towards you, combined with the observer core, you have overlapping observer core stations all over Britain, covering every single inch of airspace over Britain, looking up into the air and seeing how many aircraft there are, and at what height they are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So you can, through a combination of radar, which picks up a kind of a rough idea of what's coming towards you, combined with the observer corps, you have overlapping observer corps stations all over Britain, covering every single inch of airspace over Britain, looking up into the air and seeing how many aircraft there are,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

and at what height they are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And you have a little thing called a pantograph, which is a piece of equipment which helps you judge altitude. You then ring through that. That all comes into the control room along with the information from the radar stations, which is going into a single filter room at fighter command headquarters, which is then being pushed straight back out to the sector stations.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And you have a little thing called a pantograph, which is a piece of equipment which helps you judge altitude. You then ring through that. That all comes into the control room along with the information from the radar stations, which is going into a single filter room at fighter command headquarters, which is then being pushed straight back out to the sector stations.