NASAM Exhibits

Link Room Display Part I – Radio Valves

Link Room Display Part I …… This is a series of short blog postings explaining some of the items we have in the link room and associated display cabinets: Radio Valves. A display in the Link Room shows radio valves from the early days, resembling electric lamps through magnetrons to the last, sub miniature types. […]

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A Moment in Time

Observer Captain John Murphy BA ….. A Moment in Time I first met John Murphy soon after I joined the Royal Observer Corps in 1965. He was a full time observer officer stationed at Preston. He had previously been in the Parachute Regiment and could have been the only full time officer to have the

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Restoration of Whirlwind XR485 (part II)

Restoration of Whirlwind XR485 (Completion) ….. Hurrah re the Westland Whirlwind, the paint team have now completed the restoration painting. Pictures of the completion are below and a full gallery of images can be found by following the green link at the bottom of the page. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] This is the last

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