Photo by Karen Abeyasekere | 100th Air Refueling Wing | 07.26.2012
Paul Watson, a contractor, uses a spirit level to check if a concrete post is straight as he helps put up a security fence around a field next to Taxiway Alpha, RAF Mildenhall. The field is being made into a taxiway extension and will provide extra room which will allow swifter takeoffs for heavier aircraft. Currently, heavy aircraft have to back-taxi to the end of the overrun and turn around,......
Photo by Karen Abeyasekere | 100th Air Refueling Wing | 07.26.2012
A 13-ton, 360-degree-tracked excavator removes soil and puts it into two waiting 10-ton dump trucks as they prepare the field area next to Taxiway Alpha, RAF Mildenhall, for construction July 26, 2012. The soil is temporarily stored on site and will be reused in the construction works, which has environmental benefits for the project, the base community and the local community. The contracted......
Photo by Karen Abeyasekere | 100th Air Refueling Wing | 07.26.2012
Intermediate concrete fence posts and complete horizontal straining wires are put in position, awaiting installation of the chain link metal fence which is rolled out on the ground adjacent July 26, 2012. The base perimeter is being extended near the A1101 roundabout at the east end of RAF Mildenhall’s airfield in order to secure the building site. The field is being transformed into a......
Photo by Karen Abeyasekere | 100th Air Refueling Wing | 07.26.2012
John Broad and Paul Watson, contractors, fix a concrete post into a trench July 26, 2012, at RAF Mildenhall. The posts are lifted with a mini-digger, enabling the contractors to put fresh, semi-dry concrete underneath, before being lifted again onto the concrete. Broad then looks through the holes in the post, using them as a guide to make sure other posts are positioned correctly....
