RAF Upwood

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The company is Turbine Motor Works and the undertake engine overhaul for large aircraft. They are curently overhauling GE CF6-80A2 for a B767 operator. It is good to see that an aviation connection continues.
The OM offers excellent potential for the future and it is this potential that I would like to see pay for its sympathetic renovation, preservation and upkeep.
EM

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Station HQ WW2 Ops board.
Is it common to have the ops room in the station HQ?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LMGA56QX3Xs

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EM

Station HQ WW2 Ops board.
Is it common to have the ops room in the station HQ?

According to 'British Military Airfield Architecture' by Paul Francis;

"The standard operations room for stations under the Air Defence of Great Britain Scheme was a brick-built bungalow-like building to 1161/24. It accommodated up to three squadrons. At bomber stations a similar building (1211/24) was used, built immediately behind the station headquarters and connected to it by a corridor. At fighter stations it was often a detached building which required a basement to house a heating chamber. This was omitted at most bomber stations as the operations room was heated from a heating chamber in SHQ."

Any help ?




'We knew how to whinge but we kept it in the NAAFI bar.'

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Excellent. Thank you.

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DFMs won at RAF Upwood

http://www.rafupwood.co.uk/dfm156.html