Originally Posted by
chevvron
One of the Farnborough Varsities was used until about 1979 for development of of FLIR and LLTV systems (mounted to 'look' though the optically flat windows in the 'bomb bay') which eventually led to NVGs.
That aircraft was still at Farnborough in the early 1980s and is now at Cosford
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documen...sity_WL679.pdf There was some sort of RAE families day c.1984 - we were able to board the aircraft and see video of the FLIR images.