relocation of current base services and personnel from RAF Scampton to RAF Boulmer

[Easy Street]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

But when you've hardly any aircraft left why do you need all those runways?

Dispersal and resilience are back in vogue due to recent geostrategic developments, and the RAF is doing its usual thing of trying to keep up with the USAF's response, but (as ever) without the funding or the real estate.

USAF ACE Doctrine

[chevvron]

Originally Posted by radar101

As we arrived at Ash we were all frisked to remove all chinagraph pencils. My Warrant Officer Nigel was bereft! The reason was that during the initial trials, the first controller to use the big displays did his usual thing of drawing on the screen. The chinagraph clogged up the mesh over the screen causing the disposal of a £30,000 display.

Similar with the first Watchman ATC displays; they had a special non-reflective coating and we were told do NOT use a ballpoint pen to 'point' at a track on your display because it left a mark which was impossible to remove.

[ORAC]

As we arrived at Ash we were all frisked to remove all chinagraph pencils. My Warrant Officer Nigel was bereft! The reason was that during the initial trials, the first controller to use the big displays did his usual thing of drawing on the screen. The chinagraph clogged up the mesh over the screen causing the disposal of a £30,000 display.

The withdrawal of China graphs meant we were, instead, issued with non-permanent marker pens to update our boards on the FA console showing the upcoming flypro etc, resulting in various spit and spray bottle solutions to clean and keep them up to date

Meaning we ended up each shift looking like Māori warriors….