Peter Dick GM4DTH has kindly supplied this photograph of a new statue of RADAR pioneer Sir Robert Watson-Watt, which he took at the studio of sculptor Alan Heriot. The statue was unveiled in Watson-Watt’s home town of Brechin on 2nd September 2014. Watson-Watt is depicted holding an aircraft in one hand and a Chain Home radar tower in the other.
A dramatised documentary “Castles in the Sky” on the life of Watson-Watt starring Eddie Izzard was screened on BBC-2 on 4th September 2014.