Hardened Aircraft Shelterss

[terry holloway]

How interesting to see a1980s HAS in use in the TV programme SS-GB which is based in 1941!

[Pontius Navigator]

TH,I figured that too. Glad to see some use from them.

[terry holloway]

TH,I figured that too. Glad to see some use from them.
Quite! I wonder where that one was!

[Blanket Stacker]

It seemed wider than normal, unless it was clever camera work. I wondered was it one of the U-2 ones at Alconbury.

[MAINJAFAD]

Most likely Bentwaters, as there is a film production company based there and it has been used for a number of films and TV shows.

[MPN11]

Thanks for confirming my thinking, as I'm not that familiar with HAS :)

As to the programme itself, I get really tired of stuff filmed in almost total darkness :mad:

[SATCOS WHIPPING BOY]

Most likely Bentwaters, as there is a film production company based there and it has been used for a number of films and TV shows.
The filming location company is called Bentwaters Parks and there are images of the shelters up on their website ( Hardened Aircraft Hangars - Bentwaters Parks (http://www.bentwatersparks.com/location/hardened-aircraft-hangars/) ). Hopefully these will help ID the ones in the programme.

Although I have watched both episodes so far, I don't find it to be knicker-gripping viewing and the dark (arty-moody) lighting and mumbled dialogue makes it hard to follow what is going on. It had so much potential but seems to have missed the opportunity to make a great TV series.

[MPN11]

Fully agree, SWB. We described it last night as 'pedestrian' and lacking any sense of excitement [except when she got her kit off ;)]

[terry holloway]

It seemed wider than normal, unless it was clever camera work. I wondered was it one of the U-2 ones at Alconbury.
I would be interested to know more about U2 operations at Alconbury. I didn't realise they were HAS based. I had a lot to do with the U2 at Mildenhall in the 70s and 80s and they were in purpose built Hangars there. Ditto at Akrotiri in the early 80s

[terry holloway]

What you were looking at was the 1941 Nazi megastructure design. It took the winners of the real war much longer to get the design right

It is dark because its the Germans. Didn't you know Berlin is still in black and white ...
Hoho! And they don't speak very clearly either!

[Davef68]

Thanks for confirming my thinking, as I'm not that familiar with HAS :)

As to the programme itself, I get really tired of stuff filmed in almost total darkness :mad:
Cheaper as you don't need to decorate the set as fully - same reason so may US dramas have key sequences set at night!

[MPN11]

Cheaper as you don't need to decorate the set as fully - same reason so may US dramas have key sequences set at night!
By the time they finish, especially with my hearing, all I can do is read the sub-titles [if they're large enough!] which makes the entire exercise faintly pointless :)

[Pontius Navigator]

Well just finished two US mini series. Some times I couldn't understand the dialogue but for the large part that dialogue was just space filler.

[NutLoose]

You tend to find they have a long shelf life too, after all the hardened cruise missile stores at Greenham were still in use in Hans Solo's time

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[TEEEJ]

I would be interested to know more about U2 operations at Alconbury. I didn't realise they were HAS based. I had a lot to do with the U2 at Mildenhall in the 70s and 80s and they were in purpose built Hangars there. Ditto at Akrotiri in the early 80s

During the 1980s the TR-1 variant was based at Alconbury.

17th Reconnaissance Wing

The Strategic Air Command arrived at Alconbury on 1 October 1982 when the 17th Reconnaissance Wing (17th RW) was activated. The 17th RW was assigned to SAC's Eighth Air Force, 7th Air Division. The operational squadron of the 17th RW was the 95th Reconnaissance Squadron, flying the TR-1A, a tactical reconnaissance version of the Lockheed U-2. In 1992 all TR-1s were designated U-2Rs.

See more info at following link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Alconbury

Images at following link.

RAF Alconbury (http://www.bunkertours.co.uk/raf_alconbury.htm)

[AR1]

I abandoned it in favour of holiday hunting on the I-Thing. Had I have realised Kit was about to come off, I may have left it on in the background.

Wont be tuning in again.

[MPN11]

I abandoned it in favour of holiday hunting on the I-Thing. Had I have realised Kit was about to come off, I may have left it on in the background.

Wont be tuning in again.
Nothing to see, really.

And the lights were dim :)

[Akrotiri bad boy]

AR1
I banged out this week as well and headed to the I thingy for the last Death in Paradise. No debagging but nevertheless some very nice shots from various aspects ;)

[barnstormer1968]

NutLoose
I thought those scenes were filmed at former RAF Caerwent.

[NutLoose]

Nope
More footage of 'Greenham's role' in latest Star Wars film emerges online - Newbury Weekly News (http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/home/16673/More-footage-of--Greenham-s.html)

[116i]

What I can tell you is those doors dont stop for Land Rovers! Trust me....it cost me a week of my life!

[Bob Viking]

Nutloose.

You're right about the location but your chronology is way off. Han solo lived a long time ago. Quite some distance from here as it happens.

BV

[Dark Helmet]

@116i Indeed they don't. Not even for a 'Bread' van.

[NutLoose]

And those ones that drop down and you taxy over, make a real mess of your pushbike when you leave it resting up against the door..

[k3k3]

If you reverse at speed in a J2 the door stop will come through the back window and leave you hanging there...

[langleybaston]

We have given up on SS GB.

By the way, there are HASs used in the old Ultimate Force or whatever the SAS thingy was.
Shurely none at "where they are based" are there?

[Wander00]

T-H - greetings
W
formerly of Ely

[NutLoose]

If you reverse at speed in a J2 the door stop will come through the back window and leave you hanging there... And I can also confirm the door locking bars on a HAS can slice through both the inner and outer skins of a bowsers tank full of fuel ..... I can also confirm a Flight Sgt with a sandbag is no Little Dutch Boy... however he did try, even though the hole was longer than the said bag by some margin.. :E

[Cornish Jack]

Perhaps noone else is old enough to notice that the 1940s Jaguar (Episode 1) had TWIN rear lights!!:* Probably sealed beam headlights instead of P100s as well? Very forward looking, were Jags!!:rolleyes: