Visited as an Air Cadet when a member of Air Training Corps (1019 D/F Alloa) circa 1978 while on summer camp at RAF Swanton Morley. Flew Chipmunks on air experience at RAF West Raynham when Bloodhound missiles (training squadron) were based there - they used us for tracking practise,, although range a bit short, interesting watching the missiles follow you around in the circuit .......
I've only driven past Watton in the early 1990s, but I remember the big radar scanner at North Luffenham in the 60s that made your car radio crackle every time the scanner beam rotated. I was in Norfolk two weeks ago, not far from Watton on a rare visit. I'd love to visit the radar museum at Neatishead, but it was just a bit far from my itinerary on this occasion.
Fantastic footage of the Radar Office and Ops Room, never seen photos of those places in Colour before. Two of the Radar Consoles are displayed at the Radar Museum at Neatishead. It wasn't just the Bloodhounds on the other side of the Airfield that Control Centre was in charge of, they also controlled the Missile Squadrons at Marham and Rattlesden in Suffolk.
Hi Richard. Thanks for the comment, You can see he two consoles - a Tracker's (or may have been single controller's) console and a Heightfinder's when they were on display at the exhibition at the link below. They were part of the exhibition at the old Officers Mess at RAF Watton here. The pics were taken just before it was cleared and given to the Neatishead Group. I am glad to hear they are still on display 20+ years later: They also had a KSR33 teletype from the RPERDS system the brought Neatishead Radar to Watton. Nice circularity :) rafwatton.uk/a-last-look-at-the-wartime-watton-exhibition/
Visited as an Air Cadet when a member of Air Training Corps (1019 D/F Alloa) circa 1978 while on summer camp at RAF Swanton Morley. Flew Chipmunks on air experience at RAF West Raynham when Bloodhound missiles (training squadron) were based there - they used us for tracking practise,, although range a bit short, interesting watching the missiles follow you around in the circuit .......
I've only driven past Watton in the early 1990s, but I remember the big radar scanner at North Luffenham in the 60s that made your car radio crackle every time the scanner beam rotated. I was in Norfolk two weeks ago, not far from Watton on a rare visit. I'd love to visit the radar museum at Neatishead, but it was just a bit far from my itinerary on this occasion.
Fantastic footage of the Radar Office and Ops Room, never seen photos of those places in Colour before. Two of the Radar Consoles are displayed at the Radar Museum at Neatishead. It wasn't just the Bloodhounds on the other side of the Airfield that Control Centre was in charge of, they also controlled the Missile Squadrons at Marham and Rattlesden in Suffolk.
Hi Richard. Thanks for the comment, You can see he two consoles - a Tracker's (or may have been single controller's) console and a Heightfinder's when they were on display at the exhibition at the link below. They were part of the exhibition at the old Officers Mess at RAF Watton here. The pics were taken just before it was cleared and given to the Neatishead Group. I am glad to hear they are still on display 20+ years later:
They also had a KSR33 teletype from the RPERDS system the brought Neatishead Radar to Watton. Nice circularity :)
rafwatton.uk/a-last-look-at-the-wartime-watton-exhibition/
kinda sad to see all this equipment deserted, cool video
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All gone now