Vickers Varsity astro compass

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Originally Posted by Innominate

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.

I saw a tape of it doing circuits at Farnborough prior to trying a landing on the unlit runway. Everything was OK with a beautiful clear image until they lowered the undercarriage and the nosewheel blocked the view from the sensors!