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Control Tower / Watch Office for Fighter Satellite Stations (Building 49) (A/M Drg No: 3156/41 & 1536/42).
RAF Ludham airfield opened late on in 1941 as a satellite to RAF Coltishall. This fighter airfield was home mostly to Supermarine Spitfire units throughout its life, the first of which was from No. 19 Squadron, arriving from RAF Matlaske for a mixture of offensive and defensive duties. In the spring of 1942 No. 19 Squadron’s Spitfire's essentially swapped airfields with No. 610 Squadron as more Spitfire's moved in from RAF Hutton Cranswick. Unusually for a Spitfire squadron, the squadron was employed to counter increased German nocturnal activity by German bombers.
No. 610 switched with No. 167 Squadron at RAF Castletown, bringing many Dutch pilots with more Spitfires to RAF Ludham. Hawker Typhoons were also a rare different type to operate from the airfield, arriving in May 1943 for a short period to fly more offensive and defensive missions. The site did suffer from a number of German fighter-bomber attacks during this time.
Major redevelopment took place in 1944 with the intention of RAF Ludham becoming a U.S.A.A.F fighter station (Station 177), three hard runways and fifty new dispersals being built. However, the Americans never arrived and instead the Fleet Air Arm moved in, RAF Ludham becoming HMS Flycatcher from the summer of 1944.
The following units were here at some point –
▪︎No. 1 Squadron RAF
▪︎No. 19 Squadron RAF
▪︎No. 91 Squadron RAF
▪︎No. 167 Squadron RAF
▪︎No. 195 Squadron RAF
▪︎No. 602 Squadron RAF
▪︎No. 603 Squadron RAF
▪︎No. 610 Squadron RAF
▪︎No. 611 Squadron RAF
▪︎No. 1489 (Fighter) Gunnery Flight RAF
▪︎No. 2819 Squadron RAF Regiment
▪︎No. 2893 Squadron RAF Regiment.
It was home to the headquarters of the Mobile Naval Airfield Organisation from 4th September and a number of their Mobile Naval Air Bases (MONAB's). MONAB's were a series of mobile self-contained units able to repair and prepare aircraft, engines and components for ships of the Fleet. Each MONAB was initially commissioned at Ludham before the headquarters moved to AAC Middle Wallop on 16th February 1945.
Two squadrons with more Spitfire's arrived a few days later to carry out the same duties as in earlier times, attacking air and ground targets. After leaving in April these units were replaced by No. 91 Squadron and a month later No. 1 Squadron, also with Spitfire's. Both units departed in July and the airfield was put under Care and Maintenance. Having transferred to No. 60 Group the airfield was used for housing personnel from nearby RAF sites, before activity essentially ceased by the end of 1945.
The airfield finally closed in the first half of 1946. By the early 1960's the Air Ministry had sold the land and farmers eventually reacquired the airfield. Although most of the runways were broken up a small stretch was kept and used from later the same decade as a private airstrip for light aircraft and cropsprayers. Unusually, one of the wartime Blister hangars was later re-erected at the end of the surviving runway, obstructing take offs and landings. The two control towers both survive and were restored in the early 2000's. Part of the perimeter track also remains, although most of the other buildings have been demolished.
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Monday, July 25.
Radio Control Soaring, held July 23-30, at the International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, Indiana.
Photos by Jenni Alderman
The top photo shows the front of our new Sounddesign Reciever after some extensive cleaning. The bottom is another shot of our new albums.
Control + C Festival, 07 + 08 + 09 Dicembre 2007, Carpi (MO)
Control + C significa 3 giorni di festival in cui si alterneranno in varie location musicisti, critici, artisti, videomaker, scrittori per mostrare le sfaccettature dell’arte contemporanea, now, ora.
Interverranno alla rassegna – ad ingresso libero – artisti come il tedesco Apparat (uno dei maggiori esponenti dell’elettronica contemporanea, per la prima volta in Italia con la sua band), Enrico Ghezzi (curatore di trsmissioni come Blob, Fuori Orario…), il regista Alex Infascelli, Tim Hecker (musicista canadese di avanguardia, fra i più rappresentativi nella scena ambient), Scuola Furano (dj italiani da esportazione), Jeremy Shaw (mente della band canadese Circlesquare), Jukka Reverberi (membro della band italiana Giardini Di Mirò), Emidio Clementi (ex membro dei Massimo Volume, ora apprezzato scrittore), Hauschka (pianista tedesco sulla medesima etichetta di Sigur Ros e Mùm), nonché mostre con lavori di Shobo Shobo, dell’archivio degli editori Seems Book e Used Future e una retrospettiva sul famoso store milanese King Kong, punto focale per la scena street italiana e tanto altro.
Control + C / Carpi Contemporanea è promosso da Assessorato alle Politiche culturali e Assessorato alle Politiche giovanili del Comune di Carpi in collaborazione con Blanco (www.studioblanco.it) e Punk Not Diet (www.punknotdiet.it).
WW2 style control tower although this is not actually the original as after the war, the Americans took over the airfield and altered the layout.
And--control requires permission unless one is a hostage or prisoner, and even then, she thinks, throwing her head back, he'd have to kill me and watch my own blood run in the river before he'd take over my soul, wherever it may be housed in the body, pixels or ether.
This was not in the plan. I was not expecting 3 SD40-2s and an SD75I. I didn't expect to see them cross the North Sask river and I wasn't expecting to catch them again by the Cando Staging yard. I believe this one, L512 is heading to the various customers on the Beamer Industrial spur, not the Cando staging yard.
Cando's Sturgeon main staging yard has about 64 tracks, each one with about 1.1km of usable space.
Cando runs a regular train from its staging yard to various refineries in the area. See this video for details: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSohBWuCwZk
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Took a little adventure route home on my commute from work tonight. Curtis and I headed into town via RR tracks and Napa Pipe recon...started at Southern Crossing and went all the way to college....so incredible-so many interesting old buildings and sites
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