Originally Posted by
Barksdale Boy
Did not Devon and Tumby operate simultaneously and independently of each other, certainly from 67 until at least 73?
Resurrecting and old thread:
Latterly Dunkeswell and Tumby were operational at the same time. However Dunkeswell was first used as a one-off competition site. Boxes of vert photos and stereo viewers were delivered to each wing. Bill Cooper at Waddo took charge and declared it would be a Wing effort. He found a large and well defined hill, ideally sited in the approach about 5 miles before the target (IIRC) and an excellent lead in offset. Of course pre-comp devices were forbidden but I suspect there were a few PDs to St Mawgan.
By 1970 Dunkeswell was a fully fledged, if unpopular, bomb plot. It was off the beaten track for both high level and low level attacks. The low level in the south coast was particularly boring for navigation. However it was so under used that they always gave good scores to encourage more trade.