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Aviation History
1962
1962 - 0792.PDF
MAINTENANCE COMMAND ENSURING SUPPLIES—so that everything needed is in the right place at the right time—forms the main function of Main tenance Command, which receives, stores and issues most items of equipment the RAF uses. It controls the modification and preparation of complete air craft and other equipment; with workshop and repair facilities it is responsible for repair and salvage; and it operates main tenance units, equipment depots, ammunition depots, mechanical transport storage units, fuel dumps and a bomb disposal unit. It also administers the RAF Staff College at Andover and the RAF movements organization. Maintenance unit technicians repairing a Valiant at a V-force station and (right) handling the major portion of a Bloodhound missile from its container Damaged Belvedere being unloaded at a maintenance unit SIGNALS COMMAND CONTROL OF radio engineering, electronic warfare, telecommuni cations, pluQ the calibration and operation of navigational aids, is the responsibility of Signals Command. This involves administering signals units, transmitting and receiving stations, communication and Canberra and Varsities at Tangmere, a Signals Command station
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