Part 4
I have to do these in small 'posts' as PPrune only allow 15 photos per post.
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Signals staff together with local help from Maldive islanders (who wove the “attap” Kadjan walls and roof) made this original January 1958 Air Traffic Control hut (below).
Signals trucks were manned by wireless operators who with their direct W/T link to the signals centre in Ceylon kept us in contact with the outside world and with incoming aircraft and ships.
February 1958: The fuel dump. Each barrel of aviation fuel held 44-gallons (200 litres) and had to be manhandled and transferred to a bowser to refuel arriving aircraft — 5,000 barrels x 200ltrs = 1 million litres!
More to follow
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