Ace present Dulwich, I'm jealous.
You'll have to change your name to Roger if you want to make career of it though.
In the 80s, a mate of mine was in the RAF and worked on the Harrier simulator they had at RAF Wildenrath in Germany, even though the only Harrier still there was a mock-up by the main gate. It was pretty basic compared to modern stuff but great fun. It was controlled by a PDP-11 and the "terrain" view was a huge table with a miniature model of West Germany on top and a video camera mounted above it on motorised runners.
I could take off in the Harrier but never managed a succesful landing.
A bit of history - The base knew the track and timings of every Soviet military satellite passing overhead. When one was due they would wheel out big propane burners and warm up parts of the taxiway to make it look like the base was more active than it actually was.
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