New Air Traffic Control History Website

John Levesley, well-known for his research into the New Forest airfields, has now got an ATC history website up and running. John is the historian for GATCO, the Guild of Air Traffic Control Officers, of which I am a member. The new site hosts an archive of photos of UK ATC, civil and military, controllers, assistants, engineers, ops officers, briefing offficers and others, plus airports, radars, navaids, equipment and vehicles. Most of the material covers the period 1950-1990. Although there is obviously much emphasis on people pics, the initial batch of photos has many which will interest ARG members. There is even a mystery tower pic, which may be Aldergrove. John would welcome any input from our group in an effort to caption photos correctly.

It is hoped that more photos will be submitted by GATCO members when the site gets better known. I've got a few when I get a chance to sort them out.

atchistory.wordpress.com/

Look out for the very rare pics of Overseas Aircraft Control, 44 Group, Gloucester.

Thanks for the info, Ill have to have a look.

Excellent link - some very useful stuff there.

I have edited the original post to remove an unfinished sentence, the subject of which is covered later. Should have proof-read it better!

Carnaby;165117 wrote:

Excellent link - some very useful stuff there.

Yes, I agree that there is some useful stuff on there.

But, miles and miles of one page! A proper mutli-page layout with an index and a separate page for each 'topic' would have made the site a darned sight easier to browse. I just about wore out the scroll wheel on my mouse just idly browsing!

ChrisTheAncient;165144 wrote:

Yes, I agree that there is some useful stuff on there.

But, miles and miles of one page! A proper mutli-page layout with an index and a separate page for each 'topic' would have made the site a darned sight easier to browse. I just about wore out the scroll wheel on my mouse just idly browsing!

I had assumed that ' Recent Posts ' were the index listing and you just clicked on the link to save your mouse wheel ?

Interesting content and I found it worth the time to read etc.

A heads-up on new content which includes quite a few approach charts, including Bruntingthorpe, Graveley, Stradishall and Alconbury TACAN. Not to mention a Fairford aerodrome chart from when it was expanded for SAC use.