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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

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.

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

You then ring through that.

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

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

So this information is being updated all the time. So you have a plot and it looks like it might be, you know,

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

So this information is being updated all the time. So you have a plot and it looks like it might be, you know,

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

So this information is being updated all the time. So you have a plot and it looks like it might be, you know,

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

So this information is being updated all the time.

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

So you have a plot and it looks like it might be, you know,

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

enemy bombers 30 plus for example that's constantly being adapted so as more information comes in you will change that and then you can see that actually it's only 20 aircraft or 22 aircraft or whatever so you're updating that and that a little figure is put on the on your little plot and moved across and so you can see and then because you can identify your own aircraft you can then see where they are moving and you're also on um

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

enemy bombers 30 plus for example that's constantly being adapted so as more information comes in you would change that and then you can see that actually it's only 20 aircraft or 22 aircraft or whatever so you're updating that and that a little figure is put on the on your little plot and moved across and so you can see and then because you can identify your own aircraft you can then see where they are moving and you're also on um

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

enemy bombers 30 plus for example that's constantly being adapted so as more information comes in you would change that and then you can see that actually it's only 20 aircraft or 22 aircraft or whatever so you're updating that and that a little figure is put on the on your little plot and moved across and so you can see and then because you can identify your own aircraft you can then see where they are moving and you're also on um

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

enemy bombers 30 plus for example that's constantly being adapted so as more information comes in you would change that and then you can see that actually it's only 20 aircraft or 22 aircraft or whatever so you're updating that and that a little figure is put on the on your little plot and moved across and so you can see and then because you can identify your own aircraft you can then see where they are moving and you're also on um

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

The guys in the air are on the radio to ground controllers who are in these control rooms, and they're saying, okay, well, if you proceed at, you know, angels 18, 18,000 feet, you know, on a vector of, you know, 150 degrees, you should be seeing your enemy bombing formation any moment now.

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

The guys in the air are on the radio to ground controllers who are in these control rooms. And they're saying, OK, well, if you proceed at, you know, angels, 18,000 feet, you know, on a vector of, you know, 150 degrees, you should be seeing your enemy bombing formation any moment now.

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

The guys in the air are on the radio to ground controllers who are in these control rooms. And they're saying, OK, well, if you proceed at, you know, angels, 18,000 feet, you know, on a vector of, you know, 150 degrees, you should be seeing your enemy bombing formation any moment now.

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

The guys in the air are on the radio to ground controllers who are in these control rooms. And they're saying, OK, well, if you proceed at, you know, angels, 18,000 feet, you know, on a vector of, you know, 150 degrees, you should be seeing your enemy bombing formation any moment now.

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

And what that means is that you're not on the ground when the enemy are coming towards you with their bombers to hit your airfield, which means you're in the air so that all they're doing is hitting a grass airfield. which you've already got bulldozers and diggers and graders and lots of scalpings and earth ready to fill in the potholes. And it means you're good to go.

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

And what that means is that you're not on the ground when the enemy are coming towards you with their bombers to hit your airfield, which means you're in the air so that all they're doing is hitting a grass airfield. which you've already got bulldozers and diggers and graders and lots of scalpings and earth ready to fill in the potholes. And it means you're good to go.

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

And what that means is that you're not on the ground when the enemy are coming towards you with their bombers to hit your airfield, which means you're in the air so that all they're doing is hitting a grass airfield. which you've already got bulldozers and diggers and graders and lots of scalpings and earth ready to fill in the potholes. And it means you're good to go.