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NON-NUCLEAR COMPONENT STORES BUILDING 61 –
Building 61 (Drg No. 1245/53) is a Non-Nuclear Component Stores with attached concrete gantry on four columns projecting over the road to the front (west). Reasons for Designation Building 61 is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
▪︎RARITY – A rare building on a unique site designed to accommodate and service Britain's first nuclear weapon, the ''Blue Danube''. It is the only such surviving facility in the country.
▪︎HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION – The building has outstanding national and international interest for its historical associations with the development of the earliest British nuclear weapons technology during the Cold War, which helped shape Britain's post-war history.
▪︎GROUP VALUE – The building has strong group value with other buildings at RAF Barnham, and was part of the national deployment of nuclear weapons.
▪︎INTACTNESS – Building 61 is largely intact.
Non-nuclear component stores buildings 60 and 61, held the high explosive part of the bomb and its outer casing. The central section of the casing held the high explosive lenses assembled into a large ball with forward sections containing electronics and radars. Owing to the weight and size of ''Blue Danube'', the gantry at the entrance was required to manoeuvre the bomb onto a trolley for storage. Building 61 is currently used as small work units and has blockwork partitioning which is reversible.
▪︎MATERIALS – A reinforced concrete frame and blockwork walls, and a flat concrete roof. ▪︎PLAN – Rectangular, aligned approximately east-west.
▪︎EXTERIOR – Building 61 is surrounded by substantial earth bunds. It has a central recessed entrance flanked by two projecting two storey, flat roofed plant and switch rooms which originally contained plant to maintain a stable environment. The original steel doors remain. The rear elevation has a central door and there are crittall windows to the rear and sides.
▪︎INTERIOR – Originally sub-divided internally into compartments of 11ft x 3ft bays allowing the storage of up to 66 bombs, Building 61 has been partitioned internally to create smaller work units.
Although the site was in use for storage of Mustard Gas and explosives during World War II, it was not until after the end of hostilities that the depot was constructed in its current form. In the early 1950's, the Air Ministry had a continuing need for high explosive bombs and storage facilities for them and was looking ahead to a ''future war in which atomic and thermo-nuclear weapons would be used by both sides''. It is within this historic context that the Special Storage Unit at RAF Barnham was constructed following the issuing of ''Blue Danube'', Britain's first nuclear bomb, to the RAF in November 1953.
The bombs were held in clutches in V-bomber airfields such as RAF Scampton and RAF Wittering and the purpose of the store at RAF Barnham, and the almost identical site at RAF Faldingwoth in Lincolnshire, was to provide maintenance and refurbishment to support the airfields and hold spare warheads. The Air Ministry plan for the Store is dated May 1953, although planning for the facility almost certainly had started before this, and it was fully operational by July 1954. In the first phase of works, the fences, earthworks, fissile core storage hutches, inspection buildings and gantries were built by August 1955.
The small arms and pyrotechnics store, barrack accommodation, gymnasium, telephone exchange, meat preparation store and dog compound were erected shortly after to strengthen security. By mid 1955 the double fence was in place, later augmented by the current observation towers erected in early 1959 replacing smaller structures. The Special Storage Unit remained the main holding place for the Mk. 1 Atomic Bomb, under control of Bomber Command until November 1956 when an independent Unit (95 Commanding Maintenance Unit) was formed. During the operational life of the site, second and third generation British nuclear weapons such as ''Red Beard'' and ''Yellow Sun'' were introduced on the site.
By 1962, the site was in decline and the maintenance unit ceased to exist on 31st July 1963. The closure of the station is probably linked to the operational deployment of ''Blue Steel'' from late 1962. The site was sold to the current owners in 1966 and let out for light industrial use. Some of the buildings have been altered and most significantly, one of the non-nuclear stores burnt down in the 1980’s, but there has been an on-going maintenance and repair programme agreed with English Heritage resulting in the preservation of the site.
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Photo: 1996 09 18 US Hawaii Werner Hohmann Brigette scan0640
The Hertz HSK135 components complete with crossover were mounted in the front doors. We used a 5x7 adapter to put the 5.25" and the tweeter close together for better imaging. We covered the entire area of the plastic bracket with Dynamat to seal it up better but I forgot to take a picture of it when done. This was an important step to better deaden and seal the area around the speaker.
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HS POSEIDON arrives to participate in NOBLE JUSTIFICATION in Rota, Spain, Oct. 14, 2014. (photo by FSGT C.ARTIGUES - HQ MARCOM)
One of the ceramic post insulators supporting the pantograph frame on the cab 1 end of 92023 has been replaced with a different type of insulator to the one it was originally fitted with.
This photograph shows a tree in the terrestrial ecosystem of my backyard. This tree is a producer. This tree is related to the other biotic factor I captured, the bird, because it provides food, like fruits and seeds, and shelter for the bird. The bird helps the tree by eating harmful insects living on it as well as helping the pollination process. Terrestrial ecosystems, just like aquatic ecosystems, also have abiotic components. However, aquatic ecosystems are affected greatly by runoffs that pollute the water with fertilizers, chemicals, and waste water treatment discharge. This increases the levels of nutrients in the water and could lead to an algal bloom, resulting in the death of plants and animals living in the aquatic ecosystems.
Components from the Finnish edition of The Mysteries of Old Peking. An overdose of the Chop Suey font, that's for sure.
Vacuum tubes, resistors, diodes, a Tube Screamer guitar pedal, transistors, terminal strips and more!
Technical Meeting on Advanced Techniques for Equipment Testing Under Field Conditions (BRD TM). Division of Nuclear Security, IAEA Seibersdorf. 13 June 2019
Figure 48. Internal components from one the tested backpack radiation detectors.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
The plastic lugs were a bit loose so i thought I could pop them out with a file like I did on the Dart that became RB 11. They refused and disintegrated slowly as I levered them up. Instead I excavated them both out until only the narrow bit was left at the top where I could not get. Then I got some pliers and gripped the metal pole end that I had uncovered and twisted it as I pulled on the upper deck. This loosened the final part of the plugs and they fell out and the bus came apart. It came into these parts.
Rocky Flats is the site of a former nuclear weapons component manufacturing facility which operated just west of Denver from 1952 to 1988. Accidents, chemical release incidents, hazardous working conditions and contamination of the local ground and water plagued the faciity, which manufactured plutonium bomb triggers, eventually leading to its closure. In the 1990's a costly cleanup and remediation effort was initiated which led to the complete disassembly of the facility. In 2006 the EPA certified the cleanup efforts, paving the way forward to declaring the site a wildlife sanctuary.
Today, it stands as the "Rocky Flats Closure Project" and little more than the power substations and this shiny new sign stand as testament to the awesome power once harnessed at this facility. Regardless of the accidents, the mistakes and the egregious disregard for public safety, the components manufactured here were critical to the success of the most powerful weapon systems ever conceived. Five decades of sunsets have fallen on Rocky Flats and while nothing remains of the buildings that used to house exotic toxic materials and the brain trust that was contracted to transform it into something even deadlier it's legacy will remain, despite the sanitized site name and the complete erasure of its physical presence.
PictionID:44809494 - Catalog:14_014270 - Title:Atlas Payload Component - Filename:14_014270.TIF - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
An equipment room houses the “head-end” components that include the Base Station Interface Unit or BIU, and Optical Distribution Unit or ODU and a DAS Management System.
Photo Credit: SoLID Technologies
Sherwood starting to build bee hive. Their hunting camp was invaded by Africanized honey bees -- in the wall of the cabin!
INSPECTION AND REPAIR WORKSHOP BUILDING 85 –
Building 85 (Drg No. 2015/59) didn't have the blast walls like some of the others, suggesting it handled less explosive matter. With doors at each end, it is almost like a process line, in one way and out of the other, but it could have equally been used for other bomb components or even on-site support equipment.
RAF Barnham (also known as Barnham Camp) is a Royal Air Force station situated in Suffolk two miles south of Thetford, it is located to the north of the village of Barnham on Thetford Heaths, the camp is a satellite station of RAF Honington. During the 1950's and 1960's a part of RAF Barnham Station was set aside as high-security storage facility for Nuclear Weapons, this area of the site is now a scheduled monument. Earlier than that, RAF Barnham had been used as a Chemical Weapons Store and Filling Station from the 22nd August 1939. In the early 1960's, the Nuclear Weapons Storage facility was put up for sale, and now forms the privately owned Gorse Industrial Estate.
The Chemical Weapon Store and former Chemical Weapon Filling Station are situated down the dead-end Station Road. The present main gate of RAF Barnham can be found directly off the Bury Road A134 between Barnham village and Thetford, the entrance to the former Nuclear Weapons Store (now Gorse Industrial Estate) can be found on the Elveden Road between Barnham village and the old A11.
Military facilities have existed at Barnham since the First World War, and during the Second World War Barnham had been a Chemical Weapons Storage and Filling Station for Mustard Gas. During 1953 and 1954 construction began on a high-security RAF Bomb Store on the Thetford Heath. The site was to become known as RAF Barnham and construction was completed in 1955 with the site operational from September 1956. RAF Barnham was constructed as a sister-site to a similar facility constructed a few years before at RAF Faldingworth. Both sites were built to store and maintain Free-Fall Nuclear Bombs and RAF Barnham was able to supply the Bomber Squadrons at RAF Honington, RAF Marham, RAF Watton, RAF Wyton, RAF Upwood and RAF Bassingbourn, RAF Barnham came under the control of the RAF's No. 94 Maintenance Unit.
The operational life of RAF Barnham was relatively short, by the early 1960's this type of Storage Facility became obsolete as Free-Fall Nuclear Bombs were superseded as the weapon of choice, for the British Nuclear Deterrent, by the Blue Steel Stand-Off Missile. The storage and maintenance of Nuclear Weapons moved to the V Bomber Airfields. The last Nuclear Weapons were probably removed from the site by April 1963, the site was sold in 1966, and since that date it has been used as a light industrial estate.
The site was built specifically to store and maintain Free-Fall Nuclear Bombs, such as 'Blue Danube' this specific purpose was reflected in the facility's layout, the site was roughly pentagonal in shape, it consisted of three large Non-Nuclear Component Stores, surrounded by earthwork banking and a number of smaller Storage Buildings to hold the Fissile Cores, the Cores were held in Stainless Steel Containers sunk into the ground, with the larger buildings stored the Bomb Casings and the High-Explosive elements of the weapons.
The smaller Stores known as ''Hutches'' were constructed to hold the Fissile Core of the weapons, these Hutches were further divided into type 'A' and 'B'. The 'A' Type hutches having a single borehole for the storage of Plutonium Cores and the 'B' Type Hutches having a double borehole for storing the Cobalt cores. In total, there were 55 Hutches giving enough capacity to store 64 Fissile Cores. RAF Barnham had sufficient storage capacity for 132 Fissile Cores although it's likely that only a small number were ever stored there as only 25 Blue Danube Bombs were ever built at a cost of £1M per bomb !
In addition to the storage buildings, the site consisted of a number of other buildings including a Fire Station, RAF Police Flight, Administration Block, Mess block, Mechanical Transport Section, Kennels and Workshops. The Perimeter of the Site was protected by a double system of Chain Link Fencing and an Inner Concrete Panel Wall, all of which were topped with Barbed Wire. In 1959 security was enhanced by the building of Watch Towers around the Perimeter.
The former Nuclear Bomb Storage facilities are designated as a scheduled monument by English Heritage with several buildings on the site having listed building status. RAF Barnham is a Satellite Station for RAF Honington and is used by the RAF Regiment for training, It is used as an accommodation and training venue for the Potential Gunners Acquaintance Course (PGAC) The adjacent MoD Training Area remains the property of the Ministry of Defence and is still used by the RAF Regiment, as well as the Air Training Corps and Combined Cadet Force for training.
In January 2016, it was announced that RAF Barnham would close, A 'Better Defence Estate' published in November 2016, indicates that the Ministry of Defence will dispose of the site by 2020, domestic accommodation will be relocated to RAF Honington, with access to Barnham Training Area maintained, this was later extended to 2022.
Information sourced from – en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Barnham
Again, a very, VERY tiny example of the vast array of electronic & electro-mechanical parts and components to be found here. You name it, it is probably here, parts-wise (resistors, capacitors, transistors, varistors, heat sinks, diodes of all shapes & sizes, LEDs, etc -- enough to load a large truck).
Note the blown can cap in the right side of the photo! I think the rolled paper is a bunch of pin-up girls (but, then it could be blueprints for some one-off system Dad built for a sawmill in the 1960s) ;)
M42 Orion Nebula central region photographed in 3 emission lines: Ha at 656nm (900 seconds), SII at 672nm (1560 seconds) and OIII at 501nm (2220 seconds). Night of 28 January 2019, London UK.
Scope: SW 150mm/F5 achromat refractor at prime focus
Camera: 1004x monochrome PAL board camera, long exposure modified
Imges aligned, stacked and stretched in registax, further processed in Photoshop Elements
(Ottawa-September 29, 2013) Component 1 delegation at the National Peace Officers Memorial in Ottawa. Left to right: Chris Jack (FRCC Local 104 Chair), Chris Van Eke (Burnaby Youth Custody Centre Shop Steward), Dean Purdy (VIRCC Local 101 Chair & Component 1 Chair), Mike Redlick (Nanaimo Sheriff Local 102 Vice Chair) and Mike Scott (NCC Local 102 Chair).