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● LA(AH) Marc Grice instructs aircraft handlers in the art of dealing with a fl ight deck fi re at Culdrose’s
fi re school Picture: LA(Phot) Carl Osmond, RNAS Culdrose
Culdrose fi red
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up for its 60th
THE MEN and women
produced two limited edition
of HMS Seahawk were
beers – Falklands 25th and Fleet
celebrating the 60th
Air Arm Ale – with 10p from each
bottle going to Seafarers UK.
anniversary of the famous Looking to the present and
air station as Navy News
future... a realistic – and also
was printed.
environmentally-friendly – £1m
Better known to the world
fire and rescue simulator has just
as RNAS Culdrose, or simply
opened.
Culdrose, the air base just outside
The fire trainer recreates the
Helston on Cornwall’s Lizard
intense fire, heat, smoke and chaos
peninsula begins its seventh decade
of a blaze inside a ship – but in a
A trawl thr
with two days of ceremonies and
safe and controlled environment.
ough the
services.
The simulator replicates four mists of tim
e...
The 2,000 or so Service
compartments on one deck, with
personnel were due to form up for
a hallway and stairwell leading April 17 1947
ceremonial divisions on June 26
to six more compartments on an Commissioned as HMS
in front of Second Sea Lord Vice
upper deck. Seahawk
Admiral Adrian Johns, the head of
Using propane gas to generate
Naval aviation.
flames and heat and vegetable June 17 1949
The diamond jubilee ceremony
oil smoke generators, sailors get First Air Day
was to be followed by a drumhead
a feel for a real fire situation,
service, led by the Chaplain of the
but are protected by various May 1952
Fleet the Ven John Green, to pay
safety systems such as emergency First rescue in UK by
tribute to the sacrifices made by
lighting, smoke extraction systems, helicopter
Culdrose personnel since 1947.
emergency power isolations and
On a lighter note, a 60th
extra external escape doors. September 12 1958
birthday cake has been baked for
The new simulator forms one Granting of F
reedom of
the air station, featuring the badge
strand of training at the School the Borough of Helston
of every squadron to fly from
of Flight Deck Operations where
Hear what’s
Culdrose.
aircraft handlers are taught not January 1959
And that should be a very big
merely the art of moving aircraft Helicopter pilot training
cake; in its 60-year history, the
and helicopters safely around a at Culdrose begins
airfield has been home to some 30
flight deck, but preparing for the
naval air squadrons.
worst-case scenario. December 1964
Presently calling Seahawk
Moving to oohs and aahs rather Airborne Earl
y Warning
happening in Iraq
home are: 700, 750, 771, 792,
than ouches... tickets are now on task re-located to RN
AS
814, 820, 849, 854, 857 NAS,
sale for the air station’s Air Day Brawdy
plus the Hawks of FRADU (the
which this year takes place on
Fleet Requirements Air Direction
Wednesday August 1. March 1967
Unit); between them they clocked
Given the 60th anniversary of Torrey Canyon disaster
and Afghanistan
up 35,000 ‘movements’ on the
the air station, many of the aircraft
airfield in 2006.
which have flown at Culdrose over June 1969
Aircraft from some of those
its proud history will be putting in Barrack moder
nisation
squadrons were due to fly over
appearances including a vintage programme begins
From June 4th you can listen to BFBS Radio
Helston on Thursday June
Skyraider (pictured below), similar anywhere in the UK by tuning in to Sky guide number
Get in touch now-call:
28 while air station personnel
to those flown by the Fleet Air June 1973
0211.
marched through the market town
Arm in the ’50s, a Sea Prince, Sea Royal Naval F
oreign
to celebrate their freedom of the
Fury, Wasp helicopter, and Seafire Training Unit f
ormed
08701 20 21 21*
Our stations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany are
borough.
fighter.
Helston, not surprisingly, has
Bringing the air day up to date, February 1978
joining with BFBS UK to maintain a 24-hour a day email:
access@bfbs.com
close ties with Culdrose; the
a Harrier GR9 flown by the Naval RAF Sea King T
raining service with daily, live programmes from the very
airfield is the largest employer
Strike Wing will be dropping in, as Unit formed
heart of operational areas where our troops are text on: 07740 377 377
locally with 1,000 civilians working
will RAF Eurofighter and Tornado
jets.
based.
on the site. The base is thought to
November 1980 start your text with ‘AAA’
pump around £100m into the
Advanced tickets are priced Prince Andrew star
ts
local economy each year.
£12 for adults and £4 for children helicopter pilot training Keep in touch with friends and loved ones anywhere
And despite the misconception
and are available from www.
in the Forces world.
(chiefly at the NN offices – Ed),
ticketzone.co.uk, by phone on November 1984
Culdrose is not constantly fog
08705 321321 or at Cornish Airborne Earl
y Warning
bound. In fact, according to its
tourist information centres. task returns to Culdrose
weathermen, there’s only fog on
www.bfbs.com/digital
marina We’ll have a report and
average one day in every 20.
pictures from the 60th
May 1989
The best way of all to celebrate
anniversary events in our August
New control to
wer opened
any anniversary is, of course, with
edition.
a beer.
December 1995
Cornish brewery Skinners has
FRADU Hawk
s arrive
teamed up with Culdrose and
July 1997
Basic helicopter pilot
training moves to R
AF
Shawbury
* Calls cost 8p per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other
December 1998
networks may vary.
Merlin helicopt
er arrives
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