Military base · England · Still standing
RAF Brize Norton
RAF Brize Norton is the Royal Air Force's largest station in the United Kingdom, serving as the main base for strategic air transport, air-to-air refuelling and military parachuting. The station hosts large transport types including the C-17 Globemaster III, Airbus A400M Atlas and A330 Voyager and contains runways, extensive aprons, hangars and support buildings.
Its prime
1944
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1944
What RAF Brize Norton looked like in its prime.
A 1930s-built RAF station turned airborne-forces hub: big curved-roof hangars and brick station buildings on one side, and everywhere else gliders — hundreds of plywood Airspeed Horsas parked in packed rows on grass and hardstanding, wings overlapping, some cocooned in weatherproof covers. Twin-engined Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle tugs with black-and-white invasion stripes line the apron; tractors shunt glider trolleys along the perimeter track past workshops smelling of glue and fresh-sawn wood.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1944.
The record describes 6 distinct spots at RAF Brize Norton — including 3 interiors: glider servicing hangar, horsa cockpit, airborne briefing room. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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