Trigonometry Averts Loss of Airplane By:  Michael Lodato On a dark and stormy night in late December 1955 I was on duty at a USAF radar base in north-eastern Italy near the town of Campoformido. Just north of us were the Dolomite Mountains, also known as the Italian Alps, but it was fairly level around our base at an elevation of 300 ft.  The cloud cover (ceiling) was at best 1500 feet … [Read more...]