Exterior view of the RAF Elvington Watch Office (Control Tower).

In the foreground can be seen the signal square.

Camera: Contax RTSII + Carl Zeiss 28mm f2.8 Distagon lens

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On Thursday April 07, 2016 I was driving between Tavistock and Two Bridges and on ascending Pork Hill was greeted by the sight of two Merlin HC3 helicopters parked on the grass adjacent to the car park.

Needless to say the car park was quite full and the aircraft were attracting a lot of attention. Also present were members of the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Groups.

The aircraft and DSRG teams had been taking part in training sessions with the Merlins in advance of the annual Ten Tors Challenge Competition.

It may be noted that Royal Air force markings can be seen on one of the aircraft however, these helicopters transferred to 846 Naval Air Squadron in late 2014.

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Unfortunately I wasn't able to hang around to watch their departure.

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A crewman cleans the camera fitted to Royal Danish Airforce Sikorski S61 helicopter which was attending the RAF St Mawgan Air Day in August 1994.

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The Watch Office (Control Tower) RAF Davidstow Moor with Brown Willy (Bronn Wennili) the highest point on Bodmin Moor and Cornwall.

RAF Davidstow Moor is a former WWII Coastal Command Royal Air Force station located 2.9 miles north east of Camelford, Cornwall and 11.5 miles west of Launceston, Cornwall, UK. The station was operational from 1942 through to December 1945.

In the early 1950s the site was used as a motor racing circuit - Davidstow Circuit.

Motor racing ended in the wake of the 1955 Le Mans Disaster.

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RAF Boulton Paul Defiant - this was a two man turret fighter which did not prove very successful as it was vulnerable to fighter escorted German bombers. It had more success as a day and when deployed in other roles such as a gunnery trainer or target towing aircraft.

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The Boulton Paul Defiant is an interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force during World War II. The Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter" to meet the RAF requirement for day and night fighters that could concentrate their firepower on enemy bombers which were not expected to have fighter escorts due to the distance from Germany to the United Kingdom.

The Defiant had all its armament in a dorsal turret offering the ability to fire in most directions. The same principle was used in the Royal Navy's Blackburn Roc which was also built by Boulton Paul.

In combat, the Defiant was found to be effective at destroying bombers, the role it was designed for but was vulnerable to the Luftwaffe's more manoeuvrable, single-seat Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters operating from bases in Northern France.

The Defiant had been designed to destroy unescorted bombers by means of beam or ventral attacks and therefore lacked forward-firing armament, which proved to be a great weakness in daylight combat with fighters.

It was withdrawn from daytime operations for use as a night fighter and found success in combination with the use of airborne radar to locate the enemy.

(Info: Wikipedia)

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