A LOOK inside the war-winning workings of top secret radar research done in the county has attracted plenty of visitors.
An exhibition at Malvern Library into 70 years of research, testing and ‘secret squirrel’ work done in the town opened its doors with a book signing by Dr Bob Shaw, secretary of the Defford Airfield Heritage Group, who has written his account of the secret trials done on aircraft in the area to develop radar.
His book ‘Top Secret Boeing’ tells of the highly secretive and sometimes risky endeavours to crack the job of effective aircraft-borne radar – which aided in winning the Second World War.
Dr Shaw said: “a steady stream of visitors, many former staff who worked on radar at Malvern and on trials aircraft at Defford and Pershore” visited on the opening day.
Among the displays is one charting the course of the world’s first automatic landing - when a Boeing plane ‘landed’ itself successfully at Defford airfield in January 1945, using radar systems, without any pilot control and input on the rudder and stick.
The exhibition, put together by the Malvern Radar and Technology History Group working with the Defford Airfield Heritage Group continues until Saturday, June 23.
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