Radar Operated Rear Turret - Testing

I was given a brand new Hurricane, a brand new Hurricane with two radio sets in it - one for bomber command, one for fighter command. And I then went to what was called the Bomber Command School there. And there was a special project on to train air gunners to use radar to fire out of the back turret. This was a new secret sort of thing called “Village Inn”, they were just developing it. And it had 2.5’s which the British had never used in a bomber before. And the turret was all blacked out and the man had to fire on radar. Now he wasn’t firing bullets. He was using his cine film which was just the same. My job was to take off with this man and fly around and carry out attacks on him. And he was in his blacked out turret firing with you know with his cine gun following me and everything. And these guns were just following me all the time. The first time I did it, I was so impressed I thought he must be cheating. I couldn’t understand how he would have been doing this although I had been told but it just seemed to be working too good to me. So after we landed and everybody went in, I went over, hung around my Hurricane and I went over and I looked around very carefully the turret to see if he’d scratched off a little bit of paint somewhere but he hadn’t.