@1940Andy I wish I was more local. I am currently preparing similar for our U3A WW2 History Group. Trying to cover more obscure stuff including Air Launched and Op Penguin, mobile V2, using material I uncovered at the RAF Wyton Heritage Centre where I volunteer.
@scottiebateman@DaveLBywater@ScotAirAmb Happy Birthday Scottie. One of our Cambridge RAeS members had cause following a bicycle accident. He came to talk to us about their work and now raises funds for EAAA. My son also volunteers with them teaching First Aid. Big fundraising campaign at the moment as they need to move
@John_ForemanCBE@PhilipIngMBE Shouldn’t be too difficult to put probes on them as we did with Sentry. Much before this we fitted Hercules and Nimrod with probes quite quickly for Falklands.
@DrChrisBennett@RDPHistory Boat Yard story: I approached a local boat yard to strip some paint of a Nimrod dielectric panel using dry ice. It took more than the paint off! Went right through!
@DrChrisBennett@RDPHistory Some of the Glass Fortified Polyether Sulphone stuff for Harrier and Jag was made at RARDE Waltham Abbey. They were to help me out with the Chinook stuff after the conflict was over. The bits I designed are still in use on Chinook today!
@DrChrisBennett@RDPHistory Thanks Chris, we used RAE Bedford for the GRP plinth for Omega on the Nimrod R. Which as you may know operated from San Felix. There was an Omega Beacon down that way!
@DrChrisBennett@RDPHistory Chris, where was your dad working making these radomes. I too was working on radomes for Chinook RWR in a hurry at the start. They were made at SSU Woolwich. I was at EWAU, RAF Wyton. We did several rush jobs in support.
@history99917180@miktorVeldre@SBarrettBar I remember remonstrating with the first one about him parking his Disco on the grass. He told me he was on Operations! In his look alike Officers jacket with his sheriff’s badge! I think I called him something rude. Later to find out about his mobile phone picture misdemeanours.