Blog Posts

  • The Radar Rooms, progress on repairs and maintenance 2024

    This progress post will be updated annually. In the meantime, its aim is to give our followers an understanding as to the reasons for changing our Flight Plan in 2021. The intention was to create enough revenue to cover the never-ending running costs, repairs and maintenance by modifying the existing accommodation to be more suitable…

  • All Our Yesterdays – D-Day

    The Royal Air Force at Omaha Beach Why was there a small contingent of RAF Technical personnel mixed up with over 130,000 highly trained combat troops attempting to land on Normandy beaches on D-Day? Spare a thought this evening of the 5th June 2024 that 80 years ago, 7000 ships and landing craft manned by…

  • The Radar Rooms – 2nd Post

    Ripperston Flight Plan Honour our Past Embrace our Present Inspire our Future This Blog will follow a number of varying themes.          * 2024 Anniversaries – D-Day 80th Anniversary 6th June 2024 highlighting the importance the RAF   Radar Units played on that Historic Day – Operation Market Garden Anniversary 17th September 2024, describing the role…

  • The Radar Rooms 1st Post

    I had intended to start this Blog during July 2021 which would have been the 80th anniversary for the opening of RAF (GCI) Ripperston and thereafter would have added a monthly update of activities, “All Our Yesterdays”, as they happened 80 years ago from my comprehensive records of RAF Ripperston. However, events took a turn,…

  • Welcome to The Radar Rooms

    So what is this all about. So, you may have read already about The Radar Rooms, the Officers’ Mess & the Officers’ Quarters but unless you have read our History of Works page then you will have no idea of how this all came about. The former GCI Radar station, RAF Ripperston, came with our…