RAF Manby
England
About
RAF Manby opened shortly before the Second World War as a Lincolnshire training station. Its main wartime identity was No. 1 Air Armament School, and it later became associated with the Empire Air Armament School and post-war RAF flying and warfare colleges. The station closed in the 1970s and the site was reused for offices, agriculture and local industry.
Photographs
Royal Air Force Flying Training Command, 1940-1945. Types of Allied gun turrets on display in the Turret Room at the Empire Air Armaments School, Manby, Lincolnshire.
ⓘ licence & credit
Miller D W (Flt Lt), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Flying_Training_Command,_1940-1945._CH17833.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Flying Training Command, 1940-1945. Types of Allied bombs on display at “Bomb Alley”, in one of the instructional sheds at the Empire Air Armament School, Manby, Lincolnshire
ⓘ licence & credit
Miller D W (Flt Lt), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Flying_Training_Command,_1940-1945._CH17832.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Flying Training Command, 1940-1945. Aircraft of the Empire Air Armament School, lined up across a dispersal track at Manby, Lincolnshire. Front row (left to right); Miles Master Mark III, Miles Martinet TT Mark I, De Havilland DH.94 Moth Minor, Percival Proctor Mark II, Miles Magister, Hawker Hurricane Mark IV and Supermarine Spitfire F Mark XII: back row (left to right); Avro Anson Mark I, Avro Lancaster B Mark III and Vickers Wellington Mark X. More Wellingtons can be seen parked in the ‘frying pan’ dispersals, and also in the distance by the ‘C’ Type hangars.