Pleased to see the progress you are making, and very much lookingforward to carrying outan inspection on Saturday.

“Stand by your beds, here comes the Air Vice Marshal,
He may have rings right up his arm,
But he’s only got one ar*ehole”

Many thanks for that. I went to that meeting, I had been a regular at hanging over the fence since 1944, and worked in the Met Office there for a few months in late 1948.

Another candidate could be Beaufighter.

The Tizard mission to the U.S. in 1940 included Taffy Bowen, who took with him a cavity magnetron. Bowen’s book Radar Days described the meetings he had with an American admiral? who gathered the top people from the U.S. radio industry, with Bowen, and they designed the predecessor to SCR 520, which developed into SCR 720, better known to us as A.I.Mk10. the UK then purchased these sets from Westinghouse. SCR720 was developed specifically for the Black Widow, but was most effectively used in the Mosquito, the Black Widow being too long in development, while the Mosquito was ready made, waiting for this very effective radar. Bowen had experience of operating the earlier British built radars in the air, and had been Watson Watts’ leading man on airborne radar. The basic concept of SCR 520 was inspired by Bowen, so it could be considered a joint project. I would recommend Radar Days to anyone interested in the development of radar.

Save you hunting, here is a shot of the control panel layout. A right muddle and note how the top right corner is rounded off, the sets had been produced to fit into an American night fighter of the period. I have criticised this set in the past, it had reasonable detection range and discrimination but a poor display.

Real heroes.

An excellent tribute to very brave men.

“Did the skipper look about 70?” You would too if you had gone through that 20 or 30 times.

The way BC and Harris were treated by the great and good was shameful. My father had been a tailor on bomber bases from 1941 to the end of the war and refused to apply for his medals, he was so disgusted. He had medals from the 14-18 war which he wore with pride.

What PC prat dreamt that crap up. Should be quietly taken outside….and shot.