Fighter Interception Development Unit RAF
The Fighter Interception Unit was a special fighter unit of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. It was part of Air Defence Great Britain
The unit was equipped with Hawker Hurricane, Bristol Blenheim and the Bristol Beaufighter while at RAF Tangmere[1]
A FIU detachment was at RAF Newchurch with the Hawker Tempest V where it tested the AN/APS 13 range determining radar for night fighting use.[2]
The unit was at RAF Wittering 3 April 1944 to 23 August 1944 [3]
In late 1944 a radar-equipped Vickers Wellington was modified for use by the Fighter Interception Unit as one of the first Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft. It operated at an altitude of 4,000 feet over the North Sea to control Mosquito night fighters intercepting Heinkel He 111s flying from Dutch airbases and carrying out airborne launches of the V-1 flying bomb.
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