The year 1955


A little music from the time . . .




 

BBC TV Film: Television Goes Flying – 1955 video from the BBC at RAF Watton

The BBC no longer allow this vdeo to be embedded so to watch please visit this BBC page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015pv4k On 27th August 1955, the BBC came to Watton to conduct experiments…

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Peter Long’s brief history of Watton – 1955

Early in the year, Development Squadron’s Varsity aircraft began the task of flight testing a passive monitoring radar receiver which was being developed at Watton. Code named ‘Breton’, this piece…

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