Qualla: RAF Turnberry https://qualla.com/raf-turnberry en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: RAF Turnberry https://qualla.com/raf-turnberry RAF Turnberry: Introduction https://qualla.com/raf-turnberry/ Two hundred is a small number against the casualty rolls of the world wars. It is also a large number when each of them was someone learning to fly. Up to 200 patients are estimated to have died at the Royal Navy hospital that the Turnberry Hotel became during the Second World War - many of them aircrew injured during training. The golf course outside the windows of that hospital was, for a few short years, an airfield. The men recovering inside it had been learning, in the planes that took off from those greens, how to fight an air war they had not yet seen.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/d/raf-turnberry-wp/gcud-raf-turnberry-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full RAF Turnberry: First War, First School https://qualla.com/raf-turnberry/ Turnberry first became a military airfield in the First World War, when the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force took it over. It housed No. 1 School of Aerial Fighting; Loch Doon, to the east, became a School of Aerial Gunnery. The two were eventually merged into No. 1 Sch...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/d/raf-turnberry-wp/gcud-raf-turnberry-first-war-first-school.mp3 0:06 2 full RAF Turnberry: A Memorial on the 12th Green https://qualla.com/raf-turnberry/ Between the wars, the survivors took care of the dead. A memorial honouring lost airmen of Turnberry was raised on the hill overlooking the 12th green of the Ailsa course - the cliff at the seaward end of the property, where the wind comes off the Firth of Clyde and the view stre...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/d/raf-turnberry-wp/gcud-raf-turnberry-a-memorial-on-the-12th-green.mp3 0:06 3 full RAF Turnberry: Liberators and Highball https://qualla.com/raf-turnberry/ The cycle repeated when the Second World War broke out. The hotel was commissioned again as a hospital, this time for the Royal Navy. The golf courses were requisitioned for air training and effectively paved over. In November 1942 the Torpedo Training Unit RAF moved in from RAF ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/d/raf-turnberry-wp/gcud-raf-turnberry-liberators-and-highball.mp3 0:06 4 full RAF Turnberry: Ailsa and Arran Again https://qualla.com/raf-turnberry/ After 1945 the units left. No. 10 Gliding School RAF lingered until January 1948, and the Coastal Command Flying Instructors School passed through. But the runways were eventually broken up, the courses re-laid - Mackenzie Ross redesigned them in 1949-51 - and Turnberry went back...

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