[Milsurplus] Robert Watson-Watt and British Radar

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

Well, I just took another look on-line for the movie I and my Wife watched yesterday entitled, 
"Castles in the Sky". Apparently, there is a Japanese film entitled "Castle (singular) in the 
Sky" which "confuses" any search engine for the British film.

Anyway, as I mentioned here yesterday, who ever built the sets for the British film had quite 
a collection of WWII (and later) U.S.military equipment.

Closeups of the electronic gear that Watson-Watt and his team were using included more 
than one BC-191/375 tuning unit built into the equipment racks, AND at least one BC-348 
mounted in the middle of a large bit of rack-panelling.

Then there was the HRO receiver, quite obviously but recently completely restored to like 
new, sitting on a table while the actors were engaging in some sort of conference.

I wish I could re-watch the entire movie with the capability of stopping action in various 
places just to see what other bits of electronic gear I would find.

Has anyone else here seen this movie? What did you notice about the gear?

Overall, I suppose the movie would be interesting to some of the 
less-than-electronically-aware folks who see it. It was interesting, but not as "in-depth" as I 
would have liked to see.

Even so, I think it is well-worth seeing by some of us.

Ken W7EKB