Saturday, 22 September 2007

Leuchars.


Carnegie reads that: "RAF LEUCHARS will reopen for operational flying next week after a £24 million refurbishment of the main runway and ancillary taxiways at the front-line fighter base ... The three Tornado squadrons based at Leuchars—111, 43, and 56—will be returning from their temporary detachments, which for the past 12 weeks have included rotations between RAF Kinloss in Moray, Leeming in North Yorkshire and Akrotiri in Cyprus. As the squadrons rotated through RAF Leeming, each took on the Quick Reaction Alert mantle, which saw a number of intercepts of Russian Bear and Backfire bombers ... Work started on the 2588m runway during the first week in May. Since then 65,000 cubic metres of concrete has been used along with 54000 tonnes of blacktop resurfacing. In addition 600 lights and 750 transformers have been replaced using 130 kilometres of cable."

Did you know that RAF Leuchars was having a little bit of a "makeover"? Obviously explains the lack of an Air Show this year.

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