Light underneath of vehicles so they can see if any bombs 💣 have been placed underneath.

The RAF guys ask a couple of questions, accept the answers, engage with the photographer for a few minutes in a civil manner, then go back to what they were doing. What an extraordinary approach to dealing with the public. I wonder if the police could get their training from the RAF?

The ALE 40 was a counter measure system (chaff and flare) the hole you saw was where a safety pin could be inserted to make the system safe, attached to the pin would be a trailing flag so it would be visible when the pin was fitted. In some operational environments the pin would only be removed prior to taxying on to the runway known as “end of runway arming” unfortunately this amazing aircraft is no longer in service. The actual aircraft you was looking at was damaged by a rocket attack on Kandahar Air Force base in Afghanistan. It was deemed to be damaged beyond repair for further flying duties and returned back to the UK for ground training and now a gate guardian for RAF Wittering.

RAF Wittering was once the home of the Harrier before they moved to RAF Cottesmore, The Harrier on the front gate is in the markings of No 1 Squadron

Mad respect for the armed services 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Hi, those lights on the floor are used for checking (security) the underside of vehicles in poor light ie night time.

Credit to the services nice guy and no you cannot fly drones over military bases

The RAF blokes were decent enough.

Soldier was a good guy and not a knob.

Bearded officer is an excellent communicator. Gives very little away but is open in his attitude to listen and make judgements.

i was based at RAF Wittering for nearly 9 months and have done most of my training there , Even thogh the guards were civil and friendly you just try and run on to camp without ID and a completly different thing will happen , and armed support is much closer than you think

Interesting video... RAF men showed how to deal with the public in a friendly and professional manner...

I would rush home from school to see the Harriers during Argentina's Falkland fiasco. You made me cry, that was 40 years ago. Good audit. 😪

Many years ago they made delivery vehicles stop over the lights whilst they checked underneath

Caravan storage is for service personnel.

Army man who spoke was a nice guy to be fair.

There is a bit of a debate actually, over whether Whittle or von Ohain was first, But he definitely invented the first British jet engine. And that is why people SHOULD receive Knighthoods! not for sending the country to war over oil and non-existent weapons of mass stupidity.

What were they wittering on about

Note that the bearded RAF Cpl was escorted by a non-RAF uniformed type.... Most RAF stations have non-RAF base security these days!

Respect to the guards …..trained to a high level and great with other humans ….they have a greater responsibility than the police yet no egos present …top blokes

Labeled trees suggest they are MOD owned, so on the base’s land. This makes the behaviour of the guards all the more impressive. They assessed you as a non/low potential threat and kept an eye open whilst allowing you to do your thing. Full marks.

A lot of RAF base's I have lived at they have provided a area to store caravans so its not parked outside the houses [not for general public use ] just some info. The Cpl did a good job used his common sense.

Send in Hammond, May and Clarkson in to take care of those caravans.

Frank Whittle was from Coventry, the Whittle Arch is a prominent landmark in front of the Transport Museum & Bus Station. He went to college in Lutterworth, there is another monument on one of the main roundabouts, the first ground test was also done there. In 1929 he attended the Central Flying School at Wittering undertaking a flying instructors’ course, but nothing was developed there, in fact the British Government has very little interest in such a concept initially that, most of initial development was at private companies in Rugby, while allowing him to publish the patent publically, before it eventually became a state secret.

They did better than ours do normally. Well done chap. 🙂

I’ve photographed at RAF Wittering, the first thing I did was to go to the guardroom and ask for permission before getting my camera out. Saves a lot of time.

Nice one again DJ .Glad to see the Drone soft ware works in areas that need protection.

Definitely wouldn't fly a drone over a military base lol

I was stationed at Wittering from 1990 to 93, my last posting before i was discharged. Was the home of the Harrier until Harrier operations ceased. Was a GR3 on the gate in my day. The GR9 in the film was placed on the gate when the Harrier force were disbanded. Caravans belong to RAF personel. The lights in the ground are for checking the undersides of vehicles for IEDs

I was at RAF Wittering for two years in the eighties ( home of the harrier,)

Hi DJ loved this clip your always polite when you chat to people but stand your ground when there rude back to you. I do think that the way you approach your clips is definitely the way to go 👍👍👍👍

Please leave these guys in peace they deserve our respect and I for one will always looking at these remarkable soldiers to protect me

A ,mazing video , to get so close up to a harrier must have been amazing

If you want a reaction, go to raf lakenheath. It's occupied by the usaf. I imagine you will get a slightly different interaction there.

Lights on floor in park bays are for under vehicle inspections

Whittle inventing the jet engine is common knowledge in aviation. Also that Harrier Jump Jet is a 'gate guardian'. Every RAF base I've visited has its own gate guardian.

Them cats eyes in that area is for inspection purposes for when the base is on high level. They use that bay with mirrors the lights are used to light up underneath the vehicle

Omg! I used to live on base there! Years since I've seen that Harrier outside. Now I'm living up north, so yea, really good to see this again. Thanks DJ. And those military personnel were as friendly as I thought they'd be :) Great video

We have twin boys, both senior non commisioned officers, both career men, one based at RAF Northolt, and one here at wittering, the guy with a beard is 100% a RAF Corporal,top lad, and the other lad MPGS, another top lad. taught to be understanding under what could be a potential threat, try to get past the barrier, things could go very wrong ,very quickly though. You are a top auditor AJ, show respect, respect should be shown back to you, as was the case here. LTID,

Good one DJ - I remember when travelling back to our home in Lincolnshire from my parents in London in the '80s, we had spotted a plane (a harrier I believe) as a gate guard and as my young son was interested in aviation we pulled in to take a look. They were equally cordial and allowed us to look around but the only worrying factor was that there was a pillbox where that barrier is now and there was a RAF Regiment person in there with a machine gun watching our every move, we didn't stay very long cos my young daughter was frightened we would get shot. Stay safe DJ.

I drive past that twice a day 3 times a week.

Ive watched nearly all your videos but not all comments but it's good to finally see you (not edited out) in the reflections in the visitors centre glass doors, great content btw. Keep up the good work.

Well I have to say the soldier was very helpful , you should have got onto the media officer , youd be suprised at how open the military are to the public in a sense , I reckon they may have been helpful with info and maybe pictures of other planes , you never know if you dont ask but great video , the harrier jumpjet is awesome , from my youth , an amazing piece of kit and the missiles are empty shells I dont doubt . All in all another good video 👍

Nice to see some respectful people in the world

Nothing there now, its a Grob Tutor Base, which moved from Wyton. It was a former Harrier base, RAF cottesmore up the road was also a Harrier Base, now an army barracks.

The ground lights are for searching under vehicles.

guards were great ~ refreshing to actually see guards @ a military base who are aware of uk law.

great video with some intresting imformation

What one this one lol

I wonder if those lights are for illuminating under cars so they can search the underneath with the mirror at night?

DJ be careful there are restrictions under the official Secrets act you may be best to check this out further Section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 makes it an offence for any person for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state to approach, inspect or be in the neighbourhood of a 'prohibited place' or to make or otherwise obtain a sketch (a term which encompasses a photograph) which might be directly or indirectly useful to a potential enemy. All Government Communications Headquarters sites are prohibited places for the purposes of the Act.

RAF are awesome !! Would love to see a harrier close up. Amazing engineering.

The RAF don’t like cameras & what a Jet that is

this is why we love and respect our guys in uniform ........ shame the cops cant understand

The missiles may be dummy practice ones but that’s not always the case. For many years the Lancaster bomber which now flies with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight was the “gate guardian” at RAF Scampton, just up the road from Wittering near Lincoln. Beside it, proudly on display was a dummy “grand slam” bomb, the biggest and most destructive bomb carried by the RAF in WW2, nicknamed the earthquake bomb. Kids used to climb on it and play on it. When the Lancaster was taken off the guard to be renovated for flight and the guardroom moved to a different place in the late 1960s the massive 22,000lb bomb had to be moved too. It was then that it was discovered that the bomb was actually live...and armed. If it had exploded it’s believed it would have wrecked half of Lincoln. Needless to say that bomb disposal (coincidentally currently based at Wittering) were called out to make it safe. It’s still on display at Scampton in it now ‘safe’ form Whoops.

I flew on the world's first jet airliner (albeit the second operational version) out of RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire. A Royal Air force Transport Command De Havilland Comet 2. All the seats faced backwards. Except for the pilots of course! When I was in the army we were taught not to 'gesticulate' with our hands when we spoke. It was always associated with Italians. Obviously not something they bother with now.

Driven past many times when on the A1 - on my way to up Lincoln from London! On the southbound side there used to be an RAF lightning jet in a farmers field - left to the elements

It’s amazing how military are more human and friendly the the cops…!

Really interested watching these videos I watch pj the whole time and now your Chanel

Respect to RAF

12:00 - up lights to underside of vehicles in parking bay.

Army guys are always nice. Right gentlemen.

Very Professional from the RAF. Only to be expected. The police could learn a lot from the RAF and other Forces. Best in the World. God bless England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Very informative vid DJ. The car park at the front was where I started my first driving lesson from.

At 2:20 when you ask if this is some kind of museum and the doors just close on you quite funny 😄

They have cats eyes in the kerbs in case of a war footing where all the lights and street lights would be extinguished, only visible from certain low angles to give entering vehicles some line to work to and cannot be seen from overhead, they are different colours for different areas.

Well done DJ

well DJ they have brains unlike some of the other forces you encounter.

Spent a week at Wittering about a decade ago when I was an Air Cadet. One of my favourite memories. Explored a lot of the site and the facilities, including the engineering bays. Just fyi on your description, the man who spoke to you was an RAF corporal, his rank slide was blue and he had a RAF cap badge. The other one I think was Army, didn’t see the badge clearly enough but I don’t know if RAF have different cap badges whilst the Army do for the different regiments.

Great Audit. Military guys were great, friendly and professional. Loved the way he kept giving thumbs up 👍 lol

I did an airfield track day show years back in my Yamaha R1. Services guy was real nice - full respect for the service. I'm in Texas now, but previously i lived in Sawtry. Great video - thanks fella!

10/10 for the RAF keep up the great work lads and you to DJ

Most "Gate Guards" which is what these aircraft standing at the entrance to an RAF Camp are known as are accessible to the public. Everything on and in them is display only and non functioning. Hence access is authorised (generally). It can change depending on the camps alert status but that's more to do with general access than particular access.

It's amazing how your vids with the police generally show hostile, confrontational officers, when in actual fact they should be the opposite when dealing with the public. Yet these Army officers were polite, engaging and I was actually quite surprised, considering you're dealing with a military base. Great to see and great vids! DJ, are you ever going to come to Devon? Or Plymouth to be more precise? I WANT A KEYRING, lol.

The blokes from the RAF very proffesinal top blokes.......great vid.

Wow, auditing my ex workplace and home! Glad all went well, TC.

9:32 - it's not hanging off - it feeds back info to the internal computer to help to guide it to its target. It's a laser guided bomb. Paveway 4 i think.

Served 4 1/2 years there on 45 and 58 Sqns. A lifetime ago now

The cats eyes 👀 are inspection lamps for illuminating the underside of vehicles, for the guards to search for suspicious devices.

Extremely interesting

These used to fly right over our heads at raf leuchars when we passed by on the double decker bus to school in st andrews. You could see every single detail of the undercarriage, it was a bit frightening at times and was even an assesment done if it was a danger. I swear you felt you could stick your hand out the school bus window and touch em.

Really nice video, nice touch you going on line to give us more info. Thx for sharing look forward to next visit

Camouflage with a high vis' belt, make your minds up lads, do you want to be seen or not?

good audits nice to see you stand your ground

Most MoD bases / camps have a facility which allows service personnel to store their caravans. The married living quarter areas do not have sufficient space to store them so an area is provided. Even with Military / Civilian security patrols, camera and high fences, these caravans are not totally secure. I believe many years ago, thieves cut the fence at the bottom end of RAF Uxbridge's airfield and towed a couple away.

What a nice change no tyrants

I would love to bring my son's here just to get a photo next to that harrier

Great audit! I learn a lot from your videos

Fair play pal your getting around quick 👍

nice audit, they was respectful and did there job well, as for the drone im assuming it's under 250g so doesn't require a licence from the CAA to fly but army bases are out. Seeings it's a working airfield and in a FRZ it would require the permission from the tower to fly. I've never used a drone and find it interesting that the software in it lets you know when you can or cannot fly, thats awesome.

I do like your audits, the way you handle yourself and those who approach you. Those triple 0 trees must be more dangerous than the double 0's

The stunt that Tom cruise performed for Mission Impossible on Wittering airfield was filmed 8 times till he got the shot he wanted ..,wild and crazy guy

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The car park is still MOD property and is for people who are booking into camp on official business or visits.

7:24 Very inclusive to have a Traveller site there as well to sort out all your Tree Felling and Tarmacing needs

Just a bit of interesting information the Harrier gate guard was hit by a lady in a car several years ago and damaged. Hence the protection around it now.

The blue parts of the weapons demonstrate that they are inert.

The grit on the road surface is likely carried in from the main road, or possibly to make creeping vehicles louder upon approach......... not a safety measure though as it would actually allow u to slide more, rather than brake quicker ;-)

Enjoyed the interaction. Why not tell them you fancy taking the harrier for a spin?

Thank you for the history lesson today.