Former RAF Upper Heyford, Cherwell, Oxfordshire (häftad)

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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 48
Utgivningsdatum: 2017-11-01
Förlag: Historic England
Illustrationer: 23 Illustrations, unspecified
Antal komponenter: 1
ISBN: 9781848025103

RAF Upper Heyford was founded during the First World War and after a short period of abandonment was re-established during the 1920s under Trenchard's scheme to provide permanent bases for the RAF. It was the exemplary airfield and the only one completed to the original design standards. During the Second World War the most significant change to the appearance of the airfield was the laying of concrete runways in a characteristic 'A' plan configuration. In the late 1940s the airfield was identified as one of a number that might accommodate United States bombers with the capability of attacking Eastern Europe with atomic weapons. To fulfil this role the airfield was extensively reconstructed, with a longer runway, more extensive aircraft parking areas, new bombs stores, specialist maintenance hangars, and an increase in domestic accommodation. During the 1960s its aircraft fulfilled a reconnaissance function regaining its nuclear deterrent role 1970. During the 1970s the airfield was again transformed through NATO's airfield survival measures programme leading to the construction of numerous hardened structures. With the end of the Cold War the USAF departed in 1993. Today, its flying field is an increasingly rare example of an unaltered Cold War fast jet airbase.

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INTRODUCTION Previous Research CONTEXTUAL RESEARCH Early History The 1950s - Strategic Air Command building for Mutually Assured Destruction The1970s - Flexible Response and the F111 era Airfield Survivability Measures The hardened landscape THE AIRFIELD AND ITS BUILDINGS The 1950s - Strategic Air Command and Mutually Assured Destruction Northern bomb stores Significance Southern bomb stores Significance The airfield in the F111 era Weather shelters - Quick Reaction Victor Alert Significance 293 Simulator The hardened landscape Hardened Aircraft Shelters Significance Bulk fuel installations - POL Petroleum, Oil and Lubricating Significance Avionics building 299 Significance Wing and squadron headquarters Significance Engine test cells and hush houses Significance ANALYSIS Pre-1945 The Cold War The early 1950s - Strategic Air Command and the era of Mutually Assured Destruction The 1970s and 1980s - the era of Flexible Response F-111 deployment Visual character CONCLUSIONS SOURCES The National Archives Secondary APPENDIX 1 Correlation between USAF aircraft deployed at Upper Heyford and the types of nuclear weapons they were cleared to carry. APPENDIX 2 USAF Igloo bomb stores APPENDIX 3 Board in building 126 Wing Headquarters detailing munitions allocated to the F-111s in the early 1990s APPENDIX 4 Principal Airfields in England assigned