Aviation Landmarks - Norfolk and Suffolk (eBook)
336 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-8655-7 (ISBN)
PETER B. GUNN has been a lifelong aviation enthusiast and historian. He has written several books on aviation history and local airfields including Sculthorpe: Secrecy and Stealth (2014) and the first edition of Aviation Landmarks in Norfolk and Suffolk (2017). The new edition, his eighth book, is the outcome of many years of research and travels around his home county of Norfolk and neighbouring Suffolk together with his wife Janet. In 2023 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
PETER B. GUNN has been a lifelong aviation enthusiast and historian. He has written several books on aviation history and local airfields including Sculthorpe: Secrecy and Stealth (2014) and the first edition of Aviation Landmarks in Norfolk and Suffolk (2017). This new edition, his eighth book, is the outcome of many years of research and travels around his home county of Norfolk and neighbouring Suffolk together with his wife Janet. In 2023 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
GLOSSARY
2/Lt | Second Lieutenant |
A&AEE | Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment |
AAP | Aircraft Acceptance Park – Airfield designated to receive aircraft from contractors for inspection and acceptance. |
AAR | Air-to-air refuelling |
ABCT | Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust |
ACM | Air Chief Marshal |
AFC | Air Force Cross |
AG | Air Gunner |
Air Cdre | Air Commodore |
AOC | Air Officer Commanding |
ASR | Air-sea rescue |
AVM | Air Vice-Marshal |
Bde | Brigade |
B1 hangar | Large aircraft repair hangar built mainly on bomber airfields. Steel construction with corrugated iron cladding. |
BG | Bomb (Bombardment) Group (USAAF) |
Blister hangar | Small arched shed suitable for the storage of smaller aircraft such as fighters. |
BS | Bomb (Bombardment) Squadron (USAAF) |
BW | Bomb (Bombardment) Wing (USAAF) |
C-type hangar | Standard hangar designed for permanent stations of the RAF expansion scheme, suitable for heavy bomber aircraft. |
CAA | Civil Aviation Authority (the late Wg Cdr Ken Wallis mischievously termed this ‘the Campaign Against Aviation’). |
Cdr | Commander |
C-in-C | Commander-in-Chief |
CFE | Central Fighter Establishment |
CH/CHL/CHEL | Chain Home radar stations developed from the original station at Bawdsey, as early warning to detect enemy aircraft (official name was AMES but this was rarely used). There were also CHL (Chain Home Low) stations to detect low-flying enemy aircraft. CHEL (Chain Home Extra Low) stations provided low-level cover but with upgraded equipment. |
Circus operation | Operation consisting of bombers escorted by fighters and designed to draw enemy fighters into combat. |
CO | Commanding Officer |
CWGC | Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
DFC | Distinguished Flying Cross (there was also an American DFC). |
DFC* | Distinguished Flying Cross (asterisk signifies Bar to decoration) |
Diver Battery | Heavy anti-aircraft battery used from June 1944 to combat V-bomb threat. Laid out in V-shape. |
DSC | (American) Distinguished Service Cross – the second highest US decoration. |
DSO | Distinguished Service Order |
EDP | Eastern Daily Press |
ELG | Emergency Landing Ground |
FG | Fighter Group (USAAF) |
Fg Off. | Flying Officer |
FIDO | Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation |
Flak | RAF term for anti-aircraft fire. Derived from the German ‘Fliegerabwehrkanone’. |
Flt Lt | Flight Lieutenant |
FS | Fighter Squadron (USAAF) |
GCI | Ground Controlled Interception radar was an advance on the CH stations, which were limited in coverage to coastal areas. GCI enabled night fighters to be directed towards attacking bombers. Ground stations went through various stages of development during the war from ‘early’ (mobile), ‘intermediate’ and ‘final’ (from 1942 onwards). |
GEE | First navigational aid introduced in 1942 by which a bomber navigator could calculate the position of the aircraft by observing the time taken to receive pulse signals from three different ground stations. Its main drawback was the limited range of 400 miles. See also OBOE. |
GLCM | Ground-launched cruise missile |
Gp | Group |
Gp Capt. | Group Captain |
HAS | Hardened Aircraft Shelter |
HCU | Heavy Conversion Unit |
HD | Home Defence |
ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
IRBM | Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile |
K site | Dummy airfield for day use, with dummy aircraft and mock buildings (See also QL and Q site). |
LG | Landing Ground |
Met. | RAF abbreviation for meteorological |
MRAF | Marshal of the Royal Air Force |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
NHER | Norfolk Historic Environment Record |
NLG | Night Landing Ground |
NWT | Norfolk Wildlife Trust |
OBOE | Aerial blind bombing targeting system introduced in December 1942. This consisted of a pair of radio transmitting stations on the ground (a ‘mouse’ and a ‘cat’) that sent a radar pulse to an aircraft to be re-transmitted. The bombs or markers were released at the point of intersection with another beam from a second ground station. For example, the station at Winterton-on-Sea represented the ‘cat’, with Kingsdown in Kent the ‘mouse’. As with GEE, the main weakness of Oboe was its limited range due to the earth’s curvature. |
OCU | Operational Conversion Unit |
Orlit post | Royal Observer Corps post in the Cold War named after the manufacturer. A concrete and rectangular structure designed for early warning observation of enemy aircraft. Type A stood at ground level and Type B was raised on 4ft 6in concrete legs with a wide metal ladder for access. |
OS | Ordnance Survey |
PFF | Pathfinder Force |
Plt Off. | Pilot Officer |
PRU | Photographic Reconnaissance Unit |
Q site | Dummy airfield for night use with lights to resemble flarepaths and other features of an active airfield. |
QL site | Decoy site electrically powered and often associated with Starfish sites as urban decoys. (See also K site). |
RAAF | Royal Australian Air Force |
RCAF | Royal Canadian Air Force |
RCM | Radio countermeasures |
RDF |
RFC | Royal Flying Corps |
Rhubarb | Fighter or fighter-bomber sweep at low level over the English Channel to enemy territory to seek out targets of opportunity on the ground. |
RNAS | Royal Naval Air Service |
RNZAF | Royal New Zealand Air Force |
ROC | Royal Observer Corps. See also Orlit post. |
Rotor | Term used to describe the upgrading of the UK radar coverage in the early 1950s in response to the threat from Soviet bombers. It was to enhance the reporting (early warning) element of... |
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.11.2017 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt | |
Reisen ► Reiseführer | |
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik | |
Wirtschaft | |
Schlagworte | Aircraft • airfields • aviation heritage • aviation history|Norfolk & Suffolk • Churches • Country Houses • decoy airfields • former radar stations • highly secretive sites • In the air • local pubs • Memorials • military aviation • Museums • norfolk airfields • Norfolk & Suffolk, Norfolk and Suffolk, military aviation, notable landmarks, airfields, former radar stations, decoy airfields, highly secretive sites, top secret sites, churches, memorials, museums, country houses, local pubs, streets, village signs, OS grid references, reference guide, in the air • Norfolk and Suffolk • norfolk churches • norfolk country houses • norfolk pubs • norfolk war graves • notable landmarks • on the ground • on the ground, suffolk airfields, norfolk airfields, suffolk war graves, norfolk war graves, suffolk churches, suffolk pubs, suffolk country houses, norfolk churches, norfolk pubs, norfolk country houses, aviation heritage, aircraft • on the ground, suffolk airfields, norfolk airfields, suffolk war graves, norfolk war graves, suffolk churches, suffolk pubs, suffolk country houses, norfolk churches, norfolk pubs, norfolk country houses, aviation heritage, aircraft, aviation history • OS grid references • reference guide • Streets • suffolk airfields • suffolk churches • suffolk country houses • suffolk pubs • suffolk war graves • top secret sites • village signs |
ISBN-10 | 0-7509-8655-7 / 0750986557 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7509-8655-7 / 9780750986557 |
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