airfields with bunkers?

I can't locate the actual values at this moment in time and the following are my failing memory values so any one who has the accurate data is well come to correct update etc.

The retired airman who was my host had completed his tour at Upper Heyford during the transition period from F4's to F1-11's and they were constructing their hardened shelters that are still visible.

The UH HS's were not designed to protect the occupants from a direct over head detonation and there specification had been some thing like 10MT at 5M and 100MT at 20M.

The specification included resistance to NEMP's with a sheltering Aardvark surviving while its human associates would be incapacitated.

Apparently they had traced the term Bunk back to the 1750's relative to sailors ( Peter's Reference ) and then the extensive use of Bunker during 1914/18 & 1939/45 conflicts ( AFM's Reference ).

They showed some images of German hardened facilities that had been undermined by BW's Tallboy bombs and they lead me to believe that future developments in this type of earthquake weapon would render Cheyenne Mountain obsolete by the year 2000.

They predicted that the Mountain would become a future Colorado Springs visitor attraction as have the ICBM Silo's ?

If I've remembered it correctly the Dollis Hill facility had some thing to do with the GPO and Bletchley Park ?

I also remember being corrected on this forum a few years back when I incorrectly referred to the RAF Oakley BHQ as a bunker.

Dave.

Alex wrote:

3 types.

1. Underground
2. Overground
3. Wombling Free.

Sorry, can't take this seriously now!

Your comment has had me chuckling all day - Nice One!

Had a good prowl around West Raynham a couple of years ago and don't recall anything that resembled the type of bunker you are looking for.

There is a directory of various underground airfield facilities on: www.subbrit.org.uk/category/nuclear-bunkers and its where I usually check for locations to visit when traveling.

I believe the list of bunkers on RAF bases is long. The first 'possibles' which come to mind are: RAF Wattisham, Watton, Waddington (AWACS), Mildenhall, Machrihanish (black planes flew in at night and got put into closed hangars), Leuchars, Lakenheath, Boscombe Down (ditto black planes at night), Barnham, etc. as any with a 21st century USAF/CIA communications, SR-71, U2, or Predator UAV presence will almost certainly have underground facilities. All one has to do is think of 9/11.

mbriscoe;156224 wrote:

There used to be a lot of rubbish talked about Machrihanish none of which was confirmed by people actually working there. I have always suspected that all the 'Aurora' stories came from someone overhearing the crew of one of the maritime reconnaissance aircraft that visited during exercises, I am sure the visiting crews would love a chance to wind up someone. NDBs were stored there and there was protected storage for them.

Allegedly Machrihanish was a stopover point for crews flying aircraft from New Mexico to Iraq, as Mildenhall was for the SR-71. The two airports had 10,000+ foot runways, like Boscombe Down. I was on the Machrihanish golf course late one evening and watched what appeared to be a group of F-117's come in. If Aurora exists, it is an unmanned space plane which only lands in California.