5645andym
6th May 2016, 18:03
I am making a diorama depicting a dispersal scene in late June or early July 1940, just before the Battle of Britain began in earnest and want to add something a little out of the usual and go beyond the expected Spitfire and/or Hurricane etc.
I have had an interest in the development and deployment of the Chain Home Radar network and I know that several Avro Rotas (a license built Cierva C30 Autogiro) were used to calibrate the individual stations due to their ability to fly an orbit at very slow speeds at a given distance and bearing from the station and that these sorties were ongoing during the Battle, usually in the early mornings when the skies were quiet.
Unfortunately none of the books I have read on the subject give any detail of how these aircraft were used nor is there any information available on the color scheme used in 1940.
I would appreciate any information beyond the little that I already know!
I have had an interest in the development and deployment of the Chain Home Radar network and I know that several Avro Rotas (a license built Cierva C30 Autogiro) were used to calibrate the individual stations due to their ability to fly an orbit at very slow speeds at a given distance and bearing from the station and that these sorties were ongoing during the Battle, usually in the early mornings when the skies were quiet.
Unfortunately none of the books I have read on the subject give any detail of how these aircraft were used nor is there any information available on the color scheme used in 1940.
I would appreciate any information beyond the little that I already know!