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Old 15th Jul 2014, 11:00
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pedroalpha
 
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Cold war Thor bases

Too late for RAF Tuddenham I'm afraid; I used to live there in the only married quarter and well remember seeing from my bedroom window the missiles erected and fuelled for days during the Cuba crisis although I was too young to fully comprehend the danger.

I drove past the place a few years ago and discovered that the whole airfield is now a muddy pig farm and the OMQ has been replaced by a Spanish style monstrosity.

I had a working model of a Thor launch pad (Corgi/Airfix?) at the time that had a motorised hangar on rails that would retract, erect the missile and fire it across my bedroom. Might be worth something now if I knew where it was!
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