airborne_artist
22nd Oct 2007, 09:41
Full obituary in the Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/10/22/db2201.xml)
"Squadron Leader Harry Scott, who has died aged 89, started his RAF career as a teenage aircraft apprentice and, after training as an air observer, became one of a small group of specialist navigators who pioneered the use of the blind-bombing aid "Oboe" with the Pathfinder Force.
Scott had already survived two tours on bomber operations when, in October 1942, he joined the newly-formed No 109 Squadron equipped with the fast and high-flying Mosquito. Oboe was a ground-controlled, blind-bombing system developed by the Telecommunications Research Establishment and based on the German Knickebein beam bombing system. It required precise navigation and timing for the Mosquito to fly down a narrow radio beam directed towards the target by the ground-based emitter; the aircraft would then drop flares and markers over the target to be used as an aiming point for the main bomber force."
"Squadron Leader Harry Scott, who has died aged 89, started his RAF career as a teenage aircraft apprentice and, after training as an air observer, became one of a small group of specialist navigators who pioneered the use of the blind-bombing aid "Oboe" with the Pathfinder Force.
Scott had already survived two tours on bomber operations when, in October 1942, he joined the newly-formed No 109 Squadron equipped with the fast and high-flying Mosquito. Oboe was a ground-controlled, blind-bombing system developed by the Telecommunications Research Establishment and based on the German Knickebein beam bombing system. It required precise navigation and timing for the Mosquito to fly down a narrow radio beam directed towards the target by the ground-based emitter; the aircraft would then drop flares and markers over the target to be used as an aiming point for the main bomber force."