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    Royal Air Force Fylingdales (RAF Fylingdales) is a Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Its motto is Vigilamus ("We are...
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    census, Fylingdales parish had a population of 1,346, a reduction on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,485. Now similar to Fyllingsdalen, Fylingdales was recorded...
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    Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
    group oversees stations at RAF Boulmer in Northumberland, RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire and RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria. No. 22 Group is responsible for...
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    Cape Cod Space Force Station, MA, Clear Space Force Station, AK, RAF Fylingdales, UK, and Pituffik Space Base, Greenland. The system completed replacement...
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    Squadron (RAF Fylingdales) UK Space Academy (Defence Academy, Shrivenham) "RAF Headquarters Air Command". Retrieved 28 October 2020. "RAF High Wycombe"...
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    [the] UK Space Operations Centre, Skynet (satellite) communications, RAF Fylingdales, and other enabling capabilities." The command was initially planned...
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    June 2017. "Welcome to RAF Digby". RAF.MoD.uk. Royal Air Force. Retrieved 19 June 2017. "RAF Fylingdales – Why we are here". RAF.MoD.uk. Royal Air Force...
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  • Peterson Pillar Point Schriever Vandenberg Ascension Island Clear Feltwell Fylingdales Ka’ena Point Maui Oakhanger Thule In the US Air Force, active duty installations...
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    Rize, with RAF Boulmer RRH Benbecula RRH Buchan RRH Saxa Vord RRH Neatishead RRH Portreath RRH Staxton Wold RRH Brizlee Wood RAF Fylingdales RAF High Wycombe...
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    stations across the country. Since the incoming missile warning from the RAF Fylingdales BMEWS array was only four minutes before impact this ensured if the...
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    systems. One of the four component radars for the BMEWS is based at RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire. In 2003, the UK government stated that it would...
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    warning and control aircraft PAVE PAWS, the US early warning radar RAF Fylingdales, British early warning radar Red Color, Israeli early warning radar...
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    pyramid which replaced the golfball-style radome installations at RAF Fylingdales. Wragg, David W. (1973). A Dictionary of Aviation (first ed.). Osprey...
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    Radio System (NARS),  NATO NATO air-defence network stretching from RAF Fylingdales, via Mormond Hill, UK, Sornfelli (Faroe Islands), Höfn, Iceland to...
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    454 m (1,490 ft) at Urra Moor, the North York Moors are home to the RAF Fylingdales radar base. The Jurassic limestone rocks are rich in fossils, which...
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    later a Flight Chief. In 2014, he returned to the UK and was posted to RAF Fylingdales as a Crew Chief, supervising the operation of the Ballistic Missile...
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  • RAF Barkston Heath E Flight, at RAF Wattisham F Flight, at RAF Wyton RAF Fylingdales UK Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. Northwood (18Gp HQ) Kinloss...
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    which also includes those at Beale AFB, Cape Cod Space Force Station, RAF Fylingdales and Thule Site J. The "historic property" was one of the Alaska World...
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    an engineering and science company. For their MoD Radar contract at RAF Fylingdales, "the art, it turned out, was in running the people, not the radar...
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    (CENTAG). There are many high-value targets in Britain, like RAF Fylingdales, RAF Mildenhall, and RAF Lakenheath, that would have to be struck in a conventional...
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  • at RAF Biggin Hill, 56/87 Squadron and 63 Squadron at RAF Waterbeach, 64 Squadron and 65 (East India) Squadron at RAF Duxford, 72 Squadron at RAF North...
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  • A photograph of an unusual atmospheric occurrence observed over Sri Lanka, forwarded to the UK Ministry of Defence by RAF Fylingdales, 2004...
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    Operating locations Operating Location – Fylingdales Missile warning and space domain awareness RAF Fylingdales, United Kingdom AN/FPS-132 Upgraded Early...
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    Boulmer RAF Fylingdales RAF Neatishead 5 Sqn, RAF Waddington 8 Sqn, RAF Waddington 22 Sqn, A Flight & HQ, RMB Chivenor 22 Sqn, B Flt, RAF Wattisham 22...
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  • Force Station, Cape Cod Space Force Station, Pituffik Space Base, and RAF Fylingdales, along with the AN/FPQ-16 PARCS radar at Cavalier Space Force Station...
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    Optical and Supercomputing observatory Operating Location – Fylingdales (OL-F), RAF Fylingdales 21st Operations Support Squadron (21 OSS) 21st Mission Support...
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    Thule Air Base, Greenland, and a Royal Air Force operated radar at RAF Fylingdales. As the BMEWS radars had been in operation since the 1960s, the sites...
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    blasting had the potential to cause damage to the sensitive equipment at RAF Fylingdales which is only 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the mine head. This objection...
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    presence include RAF Menwith Hill (only a short distance from RAF Fylingdales), RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall (scheduled to close in 2027), RAF Fairford (the...
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    as a section is within the Ministry of Defence controlled area at RAF Fylingdales Early Warning Radar Station. Most crossings now follow the classic...
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