Radar, Cold War and Service links and Contacts
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A
number of the sites listed in The Radar Pages offer documents in the
Adobe .pdf format. This format is an excellent way to transmit documents
but you need a special viewer to view them on your computer. You can get a free
down load of Adobe's Acrobat Reader by clicking on the Acrobat logo.
Biographical sites:
Radar To The Future - The Story of a Boffin by J. Rennie Whitehead is a detailed account of the life of one of the radar pioneers. The author recalls his life in his memoirs at http://www3.sympatico.ca/drrennie/radar.html and his experiences during the early years of radar will be of great interest to researchers. The author has led a full and active life in the public, academic and industrial spheres and you can learn more at http://www3.sympatico.ca/drrennie/index.html
A former colleague of Alec Reeves, the man who
conceived the OBOE blind bombing system, has launched a web site -
http://www.AlecHarleyReeves.com
- devoted to Reeves. It has a great deal of interesting
material, plus an associated discussion group. Part of the object of the
latter is to provide a forum for collecting anecdotes and information for use
in the biography of Alec Reeves that David Robertson is writing.
Academic sites:
The Federation of American Scientists was founded in 1945 by members of the Manhattan Project who produced the first atomic bomb and their web site at http://www.fas.org/index.html is a gold mine of information on military, political and nuclear matters. The Military Analysis section at http://www.fas.org/man/index.html is of particular interest to military researchers.
You can get your very own copy of "Searching The Skies" at the FAS site: HTML PDF
Government and Corporate sites:
The
Royal Air Force has its own extensive web site at http://www.raf.mod.uk/.
The
Royal Air Force Community Support pages provide a wealth of information
for serving and veteran Royal Air Force personnel and their families at
http://www.rafcom.co.uk/
What
are British forces getting up to world wide? You can find out at The
Ministry of Defence web site at http://www.mod.uk
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The British National Air Traffic Service has its web site at http://www.nats.co.uk/ |
Just
come up on the National Lottery? Fancy building your own air defence system?
Need an AN/FPS-6 for that weekend project? Then pop along to The Radio Research
Instrument Company, the one stop shop for all your radar needs. The Radio
Research Instrument Company has stocks of surplus U.S. military radar equipment, all available at reasonable rates subject to status (friendly to the U.S.A., voted Republican, likes missile systems and so on) with the U.S. Department
Of Defence . The site doesn't feature a shopping cart yet but you can view the
on line catalogue
and contact them by Email. This is a very useful source of information for researchers
(Incidentally they only had four AN/FPS-6's in stock when I checked so you'd
better hurry!).
Whilst
it doesn't have much to do with radar IPS Radio
and Space Services is worth a look. IPS
is an Australian government department that provides the Australian radio propagation
and space environment service and their web site at http://www.ips.gov.au/
is well worth a visit. There is also a very useful Sun-Satellite
Interference Prediction Calculator that I use
to provide the Sun Outage information for the satellite earth stations that I
work with. It is very easy to use and the results are very accurate.
Contact Addresses:
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Bawdsey Radar Research Group Contact: Mr. Johm Langford News letter: The Beam |
Public Record Office Tel: 020 8876 3444 |
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Historical Radar Archive |
Air Historical Branch (RAF) |
Department of Documents Tel: 020 7416 5221/5222/5226 Fax: 020 7416 5374 |
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Department of Research and Information Services Tel: 020 8205 2266 |
Personnel Management Agency For enquiries about officers' records of service: PMA (CS)2a (2)a (RAF) Or Enquiries about airmen's records of service: PMA (CS) 2a (2)b (RAF) Both located at: Building 248 |
Personnel Management Agency For records of decorations and citations: AMP Sec 1c |
