radar Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/radar/ Mechanically-minded travel Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:13:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Bawdsey Radar Museum https://mechtraveller.com/2024/01/bawdsey-radar-museum/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/01/bawdsey-radar-museum/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:42:38 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=9694 The Bawdsey Radar Museum is a small museum set up in the former transmission bunker on the 168-acre Bawdsey Manor estate, which became the home of British radar development in the 1930s, and later became RAF Bawdsey, a radar training school and Cold War missile base. The extravagantly exotic manor building with its melange of […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/01/bawdsey-radar-museum/feed/ 2 Radar Museum 1944, Douvres-la-Délivrande, Normandy https://mechtraveller.com/2023/06/radar-museum-1944-douvres-la-delivrande-normandy/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/06/radar-museum-1944-douvres-la-delivrande-normandy/#respond Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:20:09 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=9089 The Radar Museum 1944 is on the site of the Germans’ largest radar station in the Calvados region of Normandy. The original top-secret site covered a huge 10 hectares on the plateau outside the town of Douvres*. However the museum and its bunkers cover only a small part of the site. RADAR History The tale […]

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