RAF Fauld ammunition depot

[Stuart Galbraith]

Urban explorers look around an underhround RAF bomb depot. Which is mainly famous for blowing up...

 

[Mykola Saichuk]

I will show you a photograph from my collection. It is an electrified training stand from a soviet fighter pilot school for fighting "Flying Fortresses."

[Stuart Galbraith]

Fascinating. Bit more sophisticated than the RAF's briefing aids. But then the Air Ministry was a bit hard up at the time.

 

 

When I was putting the map together for bases in the Leningrad military district, I was interested to note in the CIA files a report for a forward base for Tu4's  being built in Estonia IIRC. Seemed a little bit far forward, but then I guess they had their reasons

[Mykola Saichuk]

7 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Fascinating. Bit more sophisticated than the RAF's briefing aids. But then the Air Ministry was a bit hard up at the time.

 

 

When I was putting the map together for bases in the Leningrad military district, I was interested to note in the CIA files a report for a forward base for Tu4's  being built in Estonia IIRC. Seemed a little bit far forward, but then I guess they had their reasons

Airfields for the Tu-4 were even built in Chukotka and on the ice in the Arctic Ocean.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Wow. I bet that was fun to watch them land!

[Mykola Saichuk]

and how much fun the pilots themselves had on the plane!