RAF Bruntingthorpe, near Lutterworth in Leicestershire, opened in late 1942 as the home of 29 Operational Training Unit (OTU) and its Vickers Wellingtons. The site was later used for the development of the Gloster Meteor -Britain's first operational jet aircraft - before being allocated to the US Air Force in 1953. The airfield was transformed into a Strategic Air Command (SAC) base which played host to Boeing B-47 Stratojets and later Douglas RB-66B Destroyers. The wartime A-frame runway configuration was removed in favour of a single 06/24 runway lengthened from 6,000ft to 9,800ft with a parallel taxiway.
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