Originally Posted by
ORAC
What an appallingly ignorant confusion of the roles of the ROTOR system and ROC.
For information the display in the well was produced by the
Kelvin Hughes PDU system. It was automatically developed and projected upwards with a 1 minute delay and the plotters then pushed their blocks around on top of the radar “blips”, negating the need for local tellers sitting at consoles. That may seem an excessive delay, but it was faster than manual telling which still took place from the remote radar heads at the R1 and R2 bunkers to the MRS in the R40 bunkers.
Ironically it was the plotting table which was still in place in the well at Buchan twenty years later and still used as a back-up to the GL161 computerised system.
Radar - Subterranea Britannica
Subterranea Britannica: Research Study Group: Sites: RAF Holmpton GCI Rotor Radar Station
And no discussion of women the RAF ground environment can
ever neglect to mention Air Commodore “Aunt” Joan Hopkins.
https://youtu.be/SI36_iEtOS8
Or Air Commodore Jayne Millington.