sentences:  The world's first automatic approach and landing also took place at Defford in 1945, paving the way for today's airliners which are able to safely arrive at their destinations, whatever the weather.The world's first demonstration of an aircraft making a "hands off" automatic blind landing, using equipment the forerunner of modern ILS, was at Defford in January 1945.TFU remained at Defford after the war, and was renamed the Radar Research Flying Unit (RRFU) in 1953.