PROJECT FUR HAT SWEDEN 1963 and 1964

I had been working on Fur Hat at Baddow since 1959, and by 1963 the installation phase had commenced.  Fur Hat was a major data handling and display project for the Royal Swedish Airforce. It was unique in many ways, but mainly because there was no pre-commissioning stage in the UK - the whole system was installed in Sweden.  I went to Sweden to assist in this work as a systems engineer., as I had a good understanding of the complex system interfaces. I can't show any work pictures because of the high security.  All I can say is the system was installed in an underground secret bunker, whose existence seemed to be known by the people in the nearby villages1  I left Joyce and the children in the UK while I was away for a few weeks.  Here are some pictures Joyce sent me to remind me of home!

If you ask the question 'Where were you when President Kennedy was assassinated 

on 22 November 1963?' I would reply that I was in Sweden.  I remember how shocked  my American friends were - as we all were.