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T-21
4th Nov 2013, 09:14
Past employees and aircrew may not be aware of this site Bedford Aeronautical Heritage Group (http://www.bahg.org.uk/)

Sir George Cayley
4th Nov 2013, 21:02
Fascinating. Is this where the Blind Landing Unit operated from?

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Genghis the Engineer
4th Nov 2013, 21:33
Fascinating. Is this where the Blind Landing Unit operated from?

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It is - they offered me a job once. I turned it down to go and test training aeroplanes at Boscombe instead. Often wondered how my career would have gone if I'd picked that job - probably much the same in long retrospect.

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John Farley
5th Nov 2013, 10:05
BLEU statrted at Martlesham Heath in the mid 40s and moved to Bedford in 1957