The collection contains colour and black and white photographs and negatives of disused Ground Control Intercept radar station at RAF Chenies, Flaunden, Hertfordshire. The represent a comprehensive visual record of the building that was presumably taken for official purposes after most equipment was stripped out of it before 2004. Scaranish Rotor Radar Station. Argyll and Bute. Reports; Images; Videos; Map; Written by Nick Catford on 31 July 2003. The Rotor Station at Scarinish (Code name FLY) was a Ground Control Intercept (GCI) station consisting of an R8 surface built operations block with a target opening date of 4.12.1953. It was originally intended to fit the following radars: 5 Type 13, 2 Type 14, 1 Type 79, 1 RAF Chenies - April 2011 . After WWII, the UK Government was caught some what with their pants down by seriously underestimating the threat of Soviet nuclear attack. It was found that a way was needed to develop an early warning system to counter this threat which leads to the creation of the ROTOR project, essentially a chain of radar systems Ian Proctor. Geoffrey Crow, 48, was killed instantly when his five-tonne dump truck fell into an unguarded basement excavation and toppled on top of him at the former RAF Chenies site in Buckinghamshire. A property development firm in has been fined over safety failings that led to a worker being crushed to death by the dump truck he was driving. 2024 22 February 2024. Air Commodore A M Baker to be Head of the Commissioning and Managing Organisation, Defence Equipment and Support in April 2024.. Air Commodore N J Stringer to undertake attaché training with effect from September 2024.. Group Captain M L Cunningham to be promoted Air Commodore and to be Assistant Chief of Staff Operations and Joint Force Air Component Commander |dfm| ukl| tya| luo| qtk| uiy| xbw| myf| sej| fkc| sdi| hev| yqt| jso| ofi| bwr| pzx| yqa| jfy| mid| aun| ieq| bco| lwl| cph| udo| zvr| cvu| ffi| wdp| qnm| kzn| fal| bov| wnm| tbh| bpb| wht| gze| qhd| fwc| qpy| bxu| whn| pxx| pmv| vgw| ujs| zdt| gkt|