New UK Airfield explore, with interesting finds..
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Re: New UK Airfield explore, with interesting finds..
Very evocative photos, Luckystrike. Was it a Fleet Air Arm base or is the case just a strange coincidence?
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Re: New UK Airfield explore, with interesting finds..
Hello Ian,
Yes we also thought it strange but just a coincidence.
But at times of need (ie shortfall in personnel in one, surplus in another) I understood that Air crew were sometimes transferred from one service arm to another or even requested transfers. So perhaps it was lost by someone who'd transferred? Sadly will never know but interesting none the less.
LUCKYSTRIKE
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Interesting stuff to be just lying around. The big fibreglass piece looks like the nose radar cover off something big like a Valiant or Vulcan, bit of a guess though. steel bits with holes in are wartime runway/dispersal tracking. Looking forward to seeing more!
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The concrete pipe sections are just that, standard concrete pipe sections used as defensive positions both on and off WWII airfields.
The "big blue lump" may be a radome of some type, these would be fibreglass, pressed fibre or some other type of material which allows radio waves to pass through.
All the best,
PB
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Thanks guys, the blue lump isn't made of fibre glass but it is like a pressed fibre so it could be a radome. Did they use these during WW2 or just after? Why I ask is like many war time airfields surplus to requirements it was closed in 1947 or 1948.
LUCKYSTRIKE
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Re: New UK Airfield explore, with interesting finds..
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Interesting stuff to be just lying around. The big fibreglass piece looks like the nose radar cover off something big like a Valiant or Vulcan, bit of a guess though.
My first thoughts were running along similar lines and had (excuse the spelling). Shakleton or Gannet with possible links to Fleet Air Arm on site.
Fantastic photo's!
Martyn.
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Re: New UK Airfield explore, with interesting finds..
What a great place! No places like that here, unfortunately.
Will have to visit some sites like this one someday
Regards,
Finn
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