The Flying Wing Headquarters building. On the ground floor under the centre of the gable is the Wing Commander Flying's
office with its bay window. To the right was his Adjutant's (my) office, and to the right of that the end window was that of
the Flying Wing Orderly Room. The blanked out window to the left of the WingCo's bay was the Stats Room. The two
storey bay housed, upstairs, Air Traffic Control and downstairs, the Met Office. To the left, the next three windows were of
the Pilots Briefing Room. The white Stevenson's Screen in the 'Met garden' is to the right of the picture and barely visible
in front of it, the Signals Square.

which produced a fresh, tangy, pine-like, smell in the hot sun during the summer months. Indoors, the end office next to mine, with an interconnecting door, was the Flying Wing Orderly Room. It, as did my office, and all the other offices in the building, opened on to the long wide central corridor. This thoroughfare had a red coconut fibre runner along its length. The uncarpeted sides of the floor were highly polished and of a darkish chocolate brown colour. The walls were a pale cream. Each office or room had a protruding sign above its door stating its use or the title of its occupant.



Video showing SEN-011 clip from Ken Senar's film.   The clip was nainly shot when Ken was posted as Flying Wing Adjutant in March 1955. It is called the Office sequence: Wg.Cdr. West at his desk, surrounded by communications equipment.   Self, as flying wing adjutant, at desk (in adjoining room), back to window, overlooking airfield.   Flying Wing Orderly Room. LAC J.E.Roseblade, Orderly Room clerk (featured).

Sitting at my desk, with my back to the window, the Orderly Room was on my right. On my left was the Boss's office with its own interconnecting door. Beyond that was the 'Stats' Room; a dark narrow room in which there was, at stand-up desk height, a sloping table running the length of the room on which were displayed the most recently available Flying Statistics from the Squadrons and Station Flight. It was my task to keep everything in there up to date. Usually, apart from my Boss, the only people to go into this room were the Station Commander and Squadron Commanders. Beyond, and further down the corridor to my left was the Aircrew Briefing Room with its map of Northern Europe on the end wall. It was my task always to attend morning Met and flying briefings in case any matters arising needed my attention. Near this long room was the Met Office itself, run by Arthur Hull and his two staff. Further along, at the end of the front of the building were other smaller rooms, one of which later had in it a demonstration Martin Baker ejection seat. There was an outside door at that end of the corridor.
Returning along the opposite side of the corridor were cleaners' rooms, toilets, the teleprinter room, stairs to the upper floor, and access to the rear door, the junction with the cross-passageway, and then a blank wall before the end window outside the Orderly Room. The short cross-passage led to Flt.Lt. Al Fairfax's Intelligence Office and display room. The latter had been the old operating theatre and had a tiled floor with a drain grid in it. Alan used to keep the drain covered with an old book because, if he didn't, the foetid smell emanating from it would permeate the whole building. Across the passage from Alan's room were the rooms occupied
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