Originally Posted by
28right
In 1966 i did 4 months in ATC at Llanbedr. North Wales, In addition to providing Jindivik pilotless target aircraft to the off shore range for the RAF. The range was also used by Canberras from Tarrant Rushton with towed targets, often on a 45,000 foot tow with a flare and lights equipped target for missile shooting. We also had some pilotless Meteor 7’s which were not shot down, but the Jindiviks were expendable. The target aircraft were ‘flown’ by Qualified RAF pilots sitting alongside the civil Contollers who also did the talkdown to landings using PAR equipment.
Plenty of Meteors were shot down at Aberporth post 1966. The Bloodhound boys nailed at least 6 of them between 1969 and 1975, 4 with warhead kills (2 RAF and 2 Swiss), while the Swiss took out another 2 with direct hits by non warhead rounds. There are at least four recorded events of the TWU Hunters and Hawks using the Aberporth range for Air to Air gun work. Some of these are recorded as Aden gun trials while others just say Air to Air gun firings took place.