Vulcan's but where ?

Found the following pictures this afternoon in the Belgian Air Force 42 Recce Sqn archives... no idea were it is taken ?

Giiven the markings I wouyld say its either Scampton or Waddington.

That looks like RAF Waddington, they are sat on this dispersal

Thanks for sharing them they are great images

Stevo

Waddington, southern dispersals.

All the best,
PB

With pleasure Stevo !
As you see, we have nice picture in our archives...

Bellamy,
Do you perhaps have a plan of Waddington to give me an overview of this field ?

For the one's that want a copy of the pictures, just send me a PM with your mail

Doesn`t, it seem odd that the dispersals are not camouflaged : . those vulcans must stick out like a sore thumb on a overfly mission : : . or did the RAF not consider spying missions a threat back then :

I seem to remember dispersal areas being sprayed with something, can't remember whether it was when I was at Brize or at St Mawgan or exactly what it was meant to achieve. Certainly the RAF took satellite over flights seriously enough.

I bet the Sovs had Googleski Earthski yonks before it was available to mere mortals like us. In the nuke world we had all the Sov satellite overflights tracked and nothing sensitive was left on top at the appointed time.

Waddo would have been a target for a nuclear first strike anyway, so a hit within a mile or so would have been good enough to nobble anything on the ground. The only issue would have perhaps been a conventional interdiction by something like a Fencer, and if that had managed to cross the whole of Western Europe unscathed, then perhap the poor pilot would have deserved an easy target like a Flat Iron on the deck at Waddo.

The only camouflage I ever saw applied to aircraft movement areas was some sort of acid spray, which was applied to tone down new concrete. It was applied to all the new HAS and concrete that was laid in the hardening programme of the early 1980s. Later the HAS themselves were painted with something but not sure what it was.