The year 1955
A little music from the time . . .
Harris Barnett Levin(e)
Harris Levin’s son David has passed these images of paperwork his father kept relating to his time on National Service from 1954 to 1956, including the 1955 Christmas Dinner Menu…
David Fossey Cpl Tech – my time here
I was posted from RAF Yatesbury to CSE Watton in September 1954 and worked there as a Cpl Tech Air Wireless Fitter until September 1957. During my term there we…
192 Squadron Washingtons by Dave Forster
192 Squadron acquired three RB-29As as replacements for its three Lincolns in the first half of 1952. The first two aircraft (WZ966, WZ967) arrived at Watton in April and were…
Flying on 527 Squadron – Early 1950’s by Ralph Swift
All Material on this page is Copyright © Ralph Swift 2003 It is probably true to say that the jet aircraft design of the early 1950’s was still partly rooted…
A Close Thing . . . by Ralph Swift
All Material on this page is Copyright © Ralph Swift Malta calibration was to prove traumatic. As well as my usual sergeant navigator I was carrying a Sqn Ldr navigator…
Flying the Canberra . . . by Ralph Swift
All Material on this page is Copyright © Ralph Swift 2003 I disliked flying the Canberra, I had got bored and uncomfortable during the longer flights made possible by the…
Flying the Meteor . . . by Ralph Swift
All Material on this page is Copyright © Ralph Swift 2003 The job proved to be just as boring as I had suspected and the following weeks were spent learning…
BBC TV Film: Television Goes Flying – 1955 video from the BBC at RAF Watton
NB: The video below requires Flash which is increasingly unsupported. If you can not see the video then visti this BBC page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015pv4k On 27th August 1955, the BBC came to Watton…
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…