Video showing SEN-020 clip from Ken Senar's film.   TITLE: "Meppen Range".   This final sequence shows the 10ft square targets on the air-ground firing range at Meppen on the heathland that was once used as the Krupp weapon testing ground near the German/Dutch border.   In the sequence are: The range safety tower.   Sabres on target runs.   A Sabre, flown by Fg.Off. Tommy Balfour of 93 Sqn enjoys some particularly low passes for the camera close to, and below the height of, the safety tower.   His aircraft was unarmed!   George Avey wrote on 3Oct09: I was posted from 5 squadron RAF Wunstorf, to RAF Oldenburg, then on to RAF Meppen Range as an Air Wireless mechanic in March 1953 until June 1955.   This was an air to ground firing range which was used for practice by RAF Jever and other airfields.   The range consisted of two towers, one main tower housing the RT equipment and a slave tower to take measurements for when rockets were fired, six eight foot square targets covered with white cloth and individually numbered, were fired at, using 20mm cannons.   After each session the targets were inspected by the german civilian staff, and any cannon holes were marked by sticking a rod in a paint pot, and prodding the holes then counting the number of hits taken, the results given to the safety officer.   Rockets were also fired at a separate target, each tower had a quadrant which was aimed at the point hit by the rocket, and a measurement taken, these two angles were then plotted on a map of the site, and the cross section then gave the distance from the target.   The range was used by Sabres, Venoms and Vampires mainly.   The only buildings were two nissan huts, and a hard standing for a mobile generator, a jap engine was also used to charge the batteries in the RT tower.   The main residence was a twenty minutes drive north.   Situated in a previous Krupps munitions testing ground, surrounded by unexploded munitions, bombs, shells etc, it was wise not to stray too far from the paths." There is no sound with this clip.   This clip runs for 1 mins 28 secs. (Thanks to Ken Senar for original film.)