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#2121 Post by larsssnowpharter » Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:39 pm

Sorry, don't have anything. O H
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#2122 Post by Woody » Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:45 pm

Not much of a clue, but I used to work there in my youth :D

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#2123 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:23 pm

We are getting nowhere Woody. Could be anywhere. Clues please.
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#2124 Post by Woody » Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:58 pm

Berkshire with an Atomic outlook, unfortunately no longer glowing B-)
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#2125 Post by jimtherev » Tue Jul 13, 2021 10:44 pm

Blimey, I worked at Harwell, and still don't recognise it.
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#2126 Post by Opsboi » Tue Jul 13, 2021 11:14 pm

Aldermaston, I'd have thought - played cricket at the AWRE once as a stripling

Harwell's Oxfordshire, I think
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#2127 Post by Woody » Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:43 am

Opsboi is in the area.
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#2128 Post by 4mastacker » Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:21 pm

Greenham Common no longer glows.
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#2129 Post by Woody » Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:25 pm

4mastacker wrote: ↑
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 Greenham Common no longer glows.
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#2130 Post by Woody » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:01 pm

Can’t be much more helpful :x

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#2131 Post by Woody » Fri Jul 16, 2021 10:27 am

I’m away for a few days, so I’ll reveal the Round Oak, Padworth Common, which is an ex-pub ~X(

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#2132 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:15 am

A bit of a lull. No airfields for some time. A few clues here, some may recognise it.
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#2133 Post by CharlieOneSix » Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:37 pm

Weston-On-The-Green. Flew in there once donkeys years ago when they weren't parachuting. No idea why!
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#2134 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Jul 20, 2021 7:02 am

You have it C16. I think that I probably have more take offs and landings there than any other airfield/airport in the world. With the BN2T we could do 4 drops an hour from 12,000. The balloon pan can be seen by the hangar. It was and probably still is the largest DZ in the country and they still managed to miss it. Pig farm top left. If they landed off the DZ a rescue vehicle had to go out to check that they were OK and bring them back. Except if they had landed in the pig farm, then they had to walk. :-o

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#2135 Post by CharlieOneSix » Tue Jul 20, 2021 4:48 pm

Thought we might as well stay on airfields so here's one......
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#2136 Post by Smeagol » Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:28 pm

That be Hethel in Norfolk. The home of Lotus cars.
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#2137 Post by CharlieOneSix » Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:03 am

Yes, 'tis Hethel. I think I've mentioned before on here that not long after "The Spy Who Love Me" Bond film was released I had the opportunity to drive one of the two Esprit road cars used in the film round the Hethel test track. Great fun!

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#2138 Post by Smeagol » Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:28 pm

Thank you C16, I have had that view of Hethel as I had a flight in a Pitts a few years ago ( a birthday present) and we performed aeros directly over head Hethel.

No more airfields, airports or even aerodromes. Just a street. But it is quite a famous one.
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#2139 Post by Opsboi » Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:58 pm

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#2140 Post by EA01 » Thu Jul 22, 2021 5:20 am

Via Dolorosa?
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