the latest FP has an interesting article on Orfordness – well worth one of the NT guided tours you can do in the summer although the tours don’t give you access to the whole site. They do however get you access to a couple of the pagodas. Those pagodas are an interesting concept – if there was an uncontained explosion, the concrete struts holding the roof up would be blown out and the heavy roof would then fall down onto the reinforced walls like the lid of a box keeping everything within the pagoda (hopefully)
The article makes reference to the existence of a wing section – perhaps from a Stirling. Given the fact that the Stirling prototype was used for ballistic tests there after it broke its back on landing, i wonder whether this could be the source of the wing. If so, surely such a section needs recovering rather than being allowed to rot where it currently lies
The National Trust also do a photography tour of the site. This offers a lot more access to the AWRE buildings than the guided tour does.
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