Further to Coff's Post
 

The modern 'resonant' cavity magnetron tube was invented by John Randall and Harry Boot in 1940 at the University of Birmingham, England.The high power of pulses from the cavity magnetron made centimeter-band radar practical, with shorter wavelength radars allowing detection of smaller objects. The compact cavity magnetron tube drastically reduced the size of radar sets so that they could be installed in anti-submarine aircraft and escort ships.

Thanks Dragartist,

Didn't know she was open to view. Must stop by next time I'm up in the Midlands.

But how do I get some of that interesting kit home? :ugh: Looked like a nice spectrum analyser in there.

Clicker, There is some kit in a private collection somewhere in Norfolk that comes out for reunions. Also some stuff in the Wyton heritage Centre (see the link to pathfinder on the museum thread.)


Wensleydale. good job I gave up smoking when I left school (1974). Was a pilot smoked a pipe who did the RAE round robin ferry. flew down from Bedford to Farnborough when we were doing a secret squirrel job on Snoopy. he had put his pipe in his leg pocket. After we had taken off a strange smell began to circulate. he looked over his shoulder and mouthed to me "have you S#!t?" a few minutes later panic set in as he felt the heat and realised what was up.


back to the tread:- few months back there was a thread about being bored sat in the cockpit on QRA counting bolt heads and unscrewing things and the like. often thought what all these guys sat down the back did when the fuse blew and the kit did not work for the rest of the sortie. No more space invaders or ping pong game.


Looking at the pictures of 664 reminded me of the exponential growth in computer power and memory in such a short time. the hard disks in the small Sun workstation with the first ever airborne flat panel display was 1Gb. revolutionary for the day.

Courtnney said............
 

and perhaps the div was Honnington?

Detail remembered from my days on Victors

H2S magnetron frequency 9375 mg
Klystron frequency 9330 mg
Therefore beat frequency 45 mg

Question - why can't I remember my mobile phone number? :(

I shall write it out 100 times before lunchtime. :(