The RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, near Horning in The Broads, has opened for its 2018 season, with new attractions for the RAF’s centenary year.
New for 2018 is the Nuclear Reporting Cell, which tells the story of how the base was used in the Cold War to warn and track a nuclear attack and fallout if it occurred. It will have Geiger counters and fallout protective suits on display, plus information on the Doomsday Clock used to measure the likely risk of a worldwide nuclear catastrophe.
Also on display will be the German Dornier 217 canon, from a Dornier shot down by a crew from 68 Fighter Squadron, based at Coltishall, on the night of 30 July 1942 over Salthouse Marshes.
A Tornado Cockpit joins the two other cockpits this season, and will be housed with the Jaguar cockpit in the ‘hanger room’.
The once-top-secret site – the biggest museum in North Norfolk – has doubled its opening times, and will now be open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday through to the end of the autumn half term.
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