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Inveriscandye; Fettercairn; KINCARDINESHIRE; SCOTLAND

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Date: 18 June 1988
Location: Inveriscandye; Fettercairn; KINCARDINESHIRE; SCOTLAND
Coordinates (lat, lon): 56.794264, -2.610204
Description: Part of the All Scotland Survey.
During the Cold War, RAF Edzell was the location of a US Navy high frequency direction finding (HF/DF) station. Equipped with a large omnidirectional Wullenweber array, colloquially known as the 'elephant cage', the station could detect and monitor faint radio transmissions originating in the North Atlantic and Eastern Europe.
Sortie: ASS/51788
Frame: 0065
Corporate bodies: J A Story Ltd (JAS).
Image type: Vertical
Scale: 24000