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Redifon 1962

I left Maynard Studios and joined Redifon Flight Simulation. We had to photograph all the equipmwnt and produce the technical manuals. When a simulator was being designed we photographed the instruments and cockpit in detail to assist our design team. The super VC10 was being built in a large hanger at Weybridge. Later they started to build the ill fated TSR2 there. There were other trips including visits to the Farnborough Air Show.

I set up their printed circuit production as it was a photographic process. We coated copper clad boards with Kodak KPCR emulsion. We photographed the 'taped up' artwork on film which was exposed in contact with the coated board - much the same as today.

Gatwick Airport 1962 Loading a simulator for export.	Redifon Training Centre Tech Pubs, photography and the computer department based here	Stone Chance Lighthouse View from tech pubs window looking over Stone Chance who made mirrors and lenses for lighthouses
Flight Simulator Alitalia Viscount 1962	Bill Williams My boss in Tech Pubs	Simulator Actuator 5 axis movement simulator
Simulator Actuator 5 axis movement	Servo Bay Before the days of microchips all non linear functions were done with servos	Cockpit controls The cockpit controls under construction
Black Box Recorder This is a prototype of the tape mechanism of a black box recorder	Black Box Side view of the unit	CL44 Transport Plane
CL44 simulator A CL44 Canadian freighter being loaded with a CL44 simulator	Cockpit No idea what plane	Flight Engineers Panel Seated behind the pilot the flight engineer controls everything except actually flying the plane
Lots of Switches No idea	Yet Another Panel Must have some purpose in life	Patchboard This is the input patchboard from the Radic 10-20 educational computer. It combined both analogue and digital computing
Visual Simulator Trainee pilots view of the runway. The first visual simulator ever built	Visual Simulator Night view of the runway from the world's first visual simulator	Super VC10 Photographed under construction at Weybridge
Office Staff Can't remember her name, well it is 57 years ago	Office Staff Hard at work in Tech Pubs as we were known	Super VC10 Being built at Weybridge
Andy My assistant	Andy My assistant	Tech Pubs Office Harry Stanbrook head of department at the far back
Roman Coin Found in the car park	Roman Coin Found in the car park

Redifon 1962

Gatwick Airport 1962

Loading a simulator for export.

Redifon Training Centre

Tech Pubs, photography and the computer department based here

Stone Chance Lighthouse

View from tech pubs window looking over Stone Chance who made mirrors and lenses for lighthouses

Flight Simulator

Alitalia Viscount 1962

Bill Williams

My boss in Tech Pubs

Simulator Actuator

5 axis movement simulator

Simulator Actuator

5 axis movement

Servo Bay

Before the days of microchips all non linear functions were done with servos

Cockpit controls

The cockpit controls under construction

Black Box Recorder

This is a prototype of the tape mechanism of a black box recorder

Black Box

Side view of the unit

CL44 Transport Plane

CL44 simulator

A CL44 Canadian freighter being loaded with a CL44 simulator

Cockpit

No idea what plane

Flight Engineers Panel

Seated behind the pilot the flight engineer controls everything except actually flying the plane

Lots of Switches

No idea

Yet Another Panel

Must have some purpose in life

Patchboard

This is the input patchboard from the Radic 10-20 educational computer. It combined both analogue and digital computing

Visual Simulator

Trainee pilots view of the runway. The first visual simulator ever built

Visual Simulator

Night view of the runway from the world's first visual simulator

Super VC10

Photographed under construction at Weybridge

Office Staff

Can't remember her name, well it is 57 years ago

Office Staff

Hard at work in Tech Pubs as we were known

Super VC10

Being built at Weybridge

Andy

My assistant

Andy

My assistant

Tech Pubs Office

Harry Stanbrook head of department at the far back

Roman Coin

Found in the car park

Roman Coin

Found in the car park