Leave the airport for the nearby cluster of hotels.
Some large buildings on the left are labeled FANX.
When the airport was much smaller and less
busy, it was known as Friendship Airport.
FANX stands for Friendship Annex,
and the FANX buildings are NSA facilities.
Turn right onto Nursery Road, away from the FANX buildings
and going up the hill toward more of the hotels.
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The museum is pretty obvious,
given the large antennas in the yard.
It's at 1745 Nursery Road.
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| An interesting waveguide-and-slot antenna. |
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| A more conventional air surveillance
antenna and feed system. |
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| The antenna from an
E-3A Sentry AWACS aircraft.
The radome is 30 feet in diameter
and six feet thick, as this is a
large antenna.
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| Two F-16 radar units. |
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| Looking down one of
the exhibit halls. |
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| M-209 cryptographic device,
with its cover opened. |
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| M-209 cryptographic device. |
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| M-138 manual cryptographic device.
Cryptographically equivalent to a
disc-based system developed by
Thomas Jefferson. |
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| Of course, the requisite
Enigma device. |
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| An array of early (1940s and before)
aircraft radios. |
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| APG-59 radar (at left),
and DPN-53 BOMARC radar
(at right),
the first use of airborne pulse
doppler technology. |
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| Antenna of an AN/APG-68 radar,
from an F-16. |
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| Waveguide feed system for an
AN/APG-68 radar, from an F-16. |
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