I don’t suppose there is footage of him recorded of him taking command during a drill is there? I remember some of a proper old style British officer with a ‘tash saying “looks like it’s really bloody happened this time”. Always made me chuckle.
@Shmillard not that I know of. If you know off any other footage please let me know. It was all secret so don't know much about this part of his history.
@ It was in the ZDF mockumentary “The Third World War” I watched it the other day, I’ll try for a link and timestamp. If it isn’t him at the very least it could be someone he knew.
As a school boy I went inside one of these just before they were decommissioned when I was an air cadet, I will always recall the overwhelming smell of hydraulic fluid and the tunnel at the strt of the film...Would have been early 1990's.....
Memories of driving past all of this in the 60s and 70s when on our way to Robin Hoods Bay. There were a lot of signs on the fences and I'm sure some warned that photography was not permitted and others that told you to keep moving because of the electromagnetic radiation hazard??
2min 26sec: In this space age world of split second decisions there can be no time for mistakes, and no time to count the consequences! So everything the aerial’s pick up is fed into computers…
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Great to watch. I always wondered where my grandfather Group Captain A R Wright worked. Looks very professional.
I don’t suppose there is footage of him recorded of him taking command during a drill is there? I remember some of a proper old style British officer with a ‘tash saying “looks like it’s really bloody happened this time”. Always made me chuckle.
@Shmillard not that I know of. If you know off any other footage please let me know. It was all secret so don't know much about this part of his history.
@ It was in the ZDF mockumentary “The Third World War” I watched it the other day, I’ll try for a link and timestamp. If it isn’t him at the very least it could be someone he knew.
@Shmillard thanks will have a look.
As a school boy I went inside one of these just before they were decommissioned when I was an air cadet, I will always recall the overwhelming smell of hydraulic fluid and the tunnel at the strt of the film...Would have been early 1990's.....
I had the chance to go inside the sister site to this, Clear Alaska before it's upgrade to phased array technology, it was AMAZING!
Wright you are, Sir!
Memories of driving past all of this in the 60s and 70s when on our way to Robin Hoods Bay. There were a lot of signs on the fences and I'm sure some warned that photography was not permitted and others that told you to keep moving because of the electromagnetic radiation hazard??
Looks like a James Bond film.
I thaught the same. So entertaining to see my grandfather in a film like that. Blown away as could only ever imagine what it was like.
2min 26sec: In this space age world of split second decisions there can be no time for mistakes, and no time to count the consequences! So everything the aerial’s pick up is fed into computers…
It's not Flyingdales!! It's Fylingdales!! Even the narrator says it.
Fylingdales
Are the workers in plainclothes civil servants or airmen working undercover?
no seatbelts...at all!
The control room looks like me tryna keep my pc cool