Nice article on the “Proctor Doctor” in the July 2010 Flypast, perhaps some of my pictures of RM169 could go into a supplementary follow-up article one day . . .?

I was a radar technician engaged in Bloodhound Mk 2 trials at Aberporth – our radar and associated computer weighed 50 tons! On average I think we destroyed one Meteor or other target aircraft a week. The missile itself cost as much as a small house!Occasionally we had to stop due to Russian “trawlers” in the vicinity. My favourite occupation was tracking airliners approaching over the Atlatic.

Warning! Thread drift!
My very first car cost me a pint of beer, 1/9d back in 1960. It was a 1938 Morris 8 convertible, and although a non-runner at the time, I soon got it going – and it had twin carbs!
It only lasted a couple of years, but was well worth it even though it consumed oil at he same rate as petrol! If I remember correctly 1/9d was also the price of a gallon (not a litre!) of petrol in those days, proper leaded stuff too.

Yes, superb! Do it!

I thought everyone was aware that if you “publish” a photograph on the web it runs the risk of being “stolen”. My defence against this is to only “publish” low resolution photographs and where possible ask for a credit. I have had the BBC and others ask for high resolution copies and so far never received a penny in compensation – it would be nice, but I don’t really expect it! Like probably most photographers on this Forum I am by no means a professional and am happy for someone to acknowledge occasionally that I have pictures they would like to use. As a professional technical author and translator I know very well there is little or no money to be gained from writing or photography in the vast majority of cases, hence my tiny bank account, and I work 7 days a week!

Here it is at the USAF Museum:
http://www.planesandchoppers.com/picture/number8355.asp

. . . and another . . .
http://www.planesandchoppers.com/picture/number9910.asp