A History of RAF Saxa Vord

There are a couple of stories about the Saxa Type 80 which have circulated the air defence world for decades. The more common of the two i...

Stephen Jones was at Saxa from Jul 87 to June 89. He was an Aerospace Systems Operator (Trade Group 12) and was on A Watch, working shifts...

When I joined the Air Defence world in 1967 there was an already long established organisation called the Control & Reporting Evaluati...

A few RAF personnel, under the command of Flt Lt CA Davison DFM, had been on site in 1955 & 56 during the construction phase of Saxa V...

The high latitude of Unst leads to long hours of daylight in the summer months – a period known locally as the “simmer dim”. Traditionally t...