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Radar is the most common method of locating aircraft. Radar stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging. It works by sending out waves that bounce off of aircraft in the sky. These bounce back and get picked up by the radar dish and those returns can be used to calculate an aircraft's position, size, speed and direction of travel.

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