How one researcher captured a vanished world of UK government science0

• SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
• August 25, 2026

Shirley Jenkins operates a trials vehicle with a colleague in the Royal Aircraft Establishment’s infrared group in the 1970s. Credit: UK MOD © Crown copyright 2026 In the early 1980s, a BBC film followed Susan James as she took noise measurements in an airborne Westland Sea King helicopter. She then processed the data in an