I'd appreciate it if anyone knows where and when the photo was taken
Cheers
Gordon

I am in the process of building a model of a Phantom from 23 Sqn when based in the Falklands.I am sure that they only carried two Skyflash instead of the usual four.Is there anyone who may be able to ...

Don't know if anyone can help. The pic was in the Shetland Times in 1979. It is supposed to be Shetland Radar in the R101. However, it's a "posed" photo. Initial research suggests:
Nearest is an ...

Whilst not being a ex Fighter Controller, I am posting this in the hope that someone can assist me.  I am however, an ex RAFVR(T) Flt Lt.
I run the RAF history website 'Air of Authority' www.rafweb.org...

Now that RAF Saxa Vord has closed, I wonder if anyone could cast any light on the whereabouts of the 'Red Star Board' which was inscribed with the names of all the controllers who controlled live QRA(...

Dear moderator,
I apologise for this presumptuously inappropriate use of your website, but I desire to crave a boon.
Might I urge all of your membership to rush to the cybermalls and downloa...

BBC4 22 August - catch it on the BBC i-player for the next 13 days - you will not be disappointed!
Richard

Does anyone have contact with Stu Hunter?  I believe he joined the branch from the Royal Engineers at the beginning of the '80's.  He was certainly in the Falklands during 1983.  Any information will ...

I am a retired RAF radar technician and worked on radars T7 to T87. The history of radar in the BoB and after is pretty well known but I was unaware that radar played a part in the D-Day landings in N...

What connection does Howard W Coxon and fighter control have in common? No prizes for the right answer, just the smugness of being first to get it.
I'll give it a while before publishing what I h...

As promised here are some pictures I took whilst posted in 1967 to 303 Signals Unit Khormaksar together with detatchments 'UP COUNTRY' to Makiros and Habilayn in the Radfan Mountains.

http://www.raffca.org.uk/php/index.php?page=the-lightning
I've not visited the FCA website for some time, and consequently have only recently read Kelvin Holmes' excellent piece on 'Controlling t...

Now and again (well, quite often really!) details of a strange object are sent to us at the ADRM to ID.  Often we can come up with something but, occasionally, we are stumped.  Please do have a quick ...

Not Saxa this time! Two Ops Rooms possibly in the 50’s. Could be operational,training or temporary  – one of the Ops Rooms has windows! I have quite Hi Res copies but reducing for the website. Any hel...

Hi All, just a short reminder that takers for the Christmas function should have their forms and cheques to me by 19th Nov.  So far we are only 7 attending - should be cheap booze with the subsidy ava...

Memories for some perhaps?

I served at Boulmer in the 1980's whilst waiting for Nimrod AEW(ha ha). I am now engaged in writing a private memoir, not for publication, and would appreciate hearing from any former colleagues who m...

The High Court has judged, recently, that the treatment being meted out to many Gurkhas in this country is unlawful. The Government has merely declared that it will consider the situation. I make no c...

Here is another face from Saxa Vord (ATC = SHETRAD) He was there with me in 1979 or 1980 but I can't remember his name. Does anyone know?

I was in discussion with Mike Tippen about bunkers we had known (!)at the Xmas Bash and mentioned the Subterranea Britannica web-site - the link is here for those interested:
http://www.subbrit.o...

I have just read a small article in today's Times Page 113 (Sat 7 Nov) about an ex-Fighter Controller, Melanie Clegg. She will be racing in the Finnmark area of North Norway (Dec - Mar) to raise money...

I was fortunate enough to have been selected to serve with the RAF at RAF Patrington from mid-1970 until mid 1973. I found your site while searching google earth for RAF Patrington. I think that it is...

The Lightning Preservation Group (LPG) at Bruntingthorpe possesses and maintains in taxiable condition 2 x Lightning F6s at Bruntingthorpe housed in a 'Q" Shed obtained from RAF Wattisham. The F6s oft...

Does anyone know when 'we' and/or NATO started identifying a 'potential hostile track' as a Zombie?
Did it pre-date the Cold War?
Grateful for any thoughts/info
Nicky

Hi everyone,
I just want to drop a quick question as this seems like the place to do it!
Quickly, a little bit about myself - I am 20 (going 21 in about 3 weeks) I have just left Northumbria...

I am researching the life of  my relative AVM Sir Quintin Brand, and would be interested to hear from anybody who knew him or served with him during his time with Fighter Command.Thank you.

VSM Estates has been given permission to convert the former RAF Bentley Priory site in Harrow into a museum and residential homes.
Harrow Council gave the developer, a joint venture between St Mo...

I have gathered a significant amount of data about the Admiralty Building and the submarine cables which were laid from Saxa in the 50’s & 60’s. In the next few weeks 3 sections will be added to the b...

At the risk of being ridiculed (nothing new there then) I noticed in my Camping & Caravan Magazine that the R3 at Kelvedon Hatch (near Brentwood, Essex) is open to the public - the only other 'public'...

Delighted to see 'Blazing a Trail for Women in the Royal Air Force' on pages 42 - 45 of this quarter's Air Mail (RAFA) magazine. Would the author care to take some credit?
Richard

I am a retired RAF Comms Engineer carrying out a little private research into RAF Signals Units (SU's). I have come across a No 729 SU listed as being at Woodlands during the period Aug 52-Sep 57. The...

I expect we've all been involved with the TriStar at some point, and now they've been withdrawn what happens to them?  Here's a link to a time-lapse video of one being dismantled at Marshall (Cambridg...

Hi,
Just wondering if you can help.
I am currently looking to apply to join the RAF as a Fighter Controller, or Aerospace Battle Manager as they are now known - still trying to remember to u...

A message from Perry Jago, who is soon to leave these shores ...
Quote:

The Minister for the Armed Forces (Mr. Bob Ainsworth) 28 Oct 08:
I am able to inform the House today of the outcome of the Royal Air Force study that has been undertaken to consider the future b...

Greetings from the former'HOWLOS'  at Buchan, Boulmer and Neatishead in this momentous RAF anniversary year. Best wishes to all past and present members. John Bell

This thread reminded me that I have some photos taken at FIADGE between Sep 82 and Jan 83 that some may find of interest.  I've scanned them and put them at the URL below.
http://picasaweb.goo...