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By: 1st August 2005 at 21:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Middle Wallop? - It looks big and grassy.
I know Vampires have operated off grass, but not quite sure about Meteors.
By: 1st August 2005 at 21:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Middle Wallop? - It looks big and grassy.
I know Vampires have operated off grass, but not quite sure about Meteors.
...but that looks like the sea in the distance?
By: 1st August 2005 at 22:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-...but that looks like the sea in the distance?
Albert,
No not the sea. Just a grainy old negative taken by my uncle. He probably flew the Meteor in from Leuchars but I can't pin it down in his logbook.
There are more clues that will help this identification but in the first instance I am looking for a cold ID.
Mark
By: 1st August 2005 at 23:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Odiham or Wallop jumped into my head
By: 1st August 2005 at 23:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-benson?
By: 2nd August 2005 at 00:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Could it be Netheravon.
By: 2nd August 2005 at 07:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-This is not a quiz.
I do not know what UK RAF airfield this is.
An analysis of the code letters on some of the aircraft give clues to their 'home bases'. There is a Spitfire and a Tempest in the line.
Mark
By: 2nd August 2005 at 08:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Damn, wish I was at home where my records are; I could probably tell you straight away. Anyway, a wild guess - Ouston?
By: 2nd August 2005 at 10:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-That rolling countryside certainly 'feels' like Netheravon, but what amuses me are the 'erks' obviously being rollocked by their Flight Sergeant in the bottom right-hand corner!
By: 2nd August 2005 at 11:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I was based at both Netheravon & Middle Wallop but it doesn't look like either of these to me...
By: 2nd August 2005 at 11:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-BTW - are those guns butts or a rifle range in the background? Could be a clue? If they are gun butts then that would eliminate Netheravon.
By: 2nd August 2005 at 18:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-In my time in the RAF and Army I have been based at or near Lossie, Kinloss, Middle Wallop and Netheravon and that dosn't look like any of them. The hills are reminiscent of Yorkshire.....but otherwise....?
Jon
By: 2nd August 2005 at 21:03 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A very wild stab in the dark - Pendeford, Wolverhampton!
By: 2nd August 2005 at 21:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-mystery airfield
i think its morton valance if not could be spitalgate grantham linc s , dab (dragline)
By: 2nd August 2005 at 23:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Worthy Down?
By: 3rd August 2005 at 00:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-It looks like Henlow from the view shown.
By: 3rd August 2005 at 10:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-It looks like Henlow from the view shown.
By George I think you've got it! If you look at the top left of the picture, you can see what appears to be Pirton water tower, about three miles South West of Henlow.
The picture appears to have been taken from the old control tower, currently the Henlow Flying Club buildings. The retaining wall around the fuel area is in part I think, still there. The main Henlow Camp buildings are out of sight behind the photographer on the East side of the aerodrome.
By: 3rd August 2005 at 14:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The building on the bottom left looks like a "expansion period" crash tender shed, built out of concrete. The vehicle on the bottom right is a 500 gallon Bedford water tanker used in fire-fighting.
By: 3rd August 2005 at 16:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Probably for putting the grass out after the Vampire and Meteors left.
These days Henlow relies on the farmer's baling machine to set the grass on fire!
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By: Mark12 - 1st August 2005 at 20:41
An interesting line up taken 1952/3 at what looks like an assembly point for a Battle of Britain display.
Can anybody recognise the geography.
Mark