GORDON BAIN’S colour plate of Canopus was taken from an ETPS Hawk flying from Boscombe Down on July 9 this year. The pilot of the Comet 4C was Flt Lt Bill Ogle.

Another 1970 picture showing the Comet’s aerial arrays.

This 1970 close-up of the Comet's underside shows the suppressed plate aerial survey camera ports.

Taken in 1970, this photograph shows the A&AEE Comet’s Doppler radome.