"Our job was top secret, no careless talk, no cameras or diaries. We knew we were something to do with radar - whatever that was-but that was all we were aware of. When the 'Boffins' dreamed up their weird and wonderful ideas and told us to 'stick this here' and 'stick that there' on the aeroplane, we just did it. The result was that the aircraft would fly in displaying their sleek lines but when they flew out again they would be bristling with all kinds of appendages sticking out all over the place." The words were spoken by RAF airframe fitter Albert Shorrock, who worked at the Worcestershire airfield of Defford in 1942 - in its embryonic days at the centre of radar development. During that time he was involved with many different types of aircraft and their modification.
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