In January 1947 the AOC in C of Flying Training Command suggested that Bombing ranges be published in the, then, exisiting RANAD publication.
Does anyone know what this is or if there are any copies in TNA or the RAFM?
(I did post a sample page in the bombing range thread so I know what a page looks like but I was interested in the bigger publication and its availability)
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
RANAD stood for Route Airfields and Navigation Aid Documents. It was equivalent to today's RAF En Route Supplements but was in a larger format (A4-ish) and the airfield diagrams were much larger. I acquired some copy pages for certain airfields a while back but never saw the whole book so cannot say if ranges were included. It is possible that RAFM and/or TNA have copies but these things tend to be binned when replaced nowadays. In earlier days security would have required that they be destroyed, at least in theory.
Thanks Dave. Updating is something we complain about now but I suspect we would have done the same at the time.
There are probably some gems still hidden in private collections, squirelled away at the time. The only hope is that nobody destroys them once the original owner has passed away.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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