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S8
06-09-2010, 12:49 PM
This has to be one of the best places that I have visited over the last few years. Cold War Glory. Concrete structures that are the fiction of James Bond and Dr No.

Cheers to Flat4 for organising this, it was a top day out!


The QRA, from up the control tower:


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And the Hardened Aircraft Hanger, F-111e's would have been held in these, ready to go at a seconds notice (which must have made popping to the Dunny an interesting experience lol).


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We also got to see the command bunker, which would have told the F-111e's to bomb the local hospital, errr, I mean military installation.


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S8 :)