Bloody hell. a helicopter lands in the same amount of spaceThat’s why pilots from Alaska are so good. Into the wind many of them can land on a short beach.
Bloody hell. a helicopter lands in the same amount of spaceThat’s why pilots from Alaska are so good. Into the wind many of them can land on a short beach.
The mod I think, used to be an RAF base. On a side note, they used to build Lancaster bombers in the big green building next door:Who thought it was a good Idea to put a runway there?
It opened in the 1930s as a civilian airport the mod took in over it ww2, my gran and grandad both worked there building planes during ww2 and we used to go in the AA gun bunkers as kids it probably frowned up on now.The mod I think, used to be an RAF base. On a side note, they used to build Lancaster bombers in the big green building next door:
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They put fake animals on the roof to make it look like farmland, I know an old lady who used to go there after school to move them to different positions each day to make it look more realistic
You can also see where they had anti aircraft guns positioned in case the Germans saw through the disguise. As far as I'm aware though, it was never bombed. This is about 1/2 mile up the road:
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Hope somebody found that little history lesson interesting![]()
That's a Piper Super Cub, takes off in a very short distance.Okay great - but how do you take off again if the wind has dropped.
Thanks for the correction. As to the runway being like it is, obviously it started off much shorter back in the day so I would imagine it wasn't as bad originally.It opened in the 1930s as a civilian airport the mod took in over it ww2, my gran and grandad both worked there building planes during ww2 and we used to go in the AA gun bunkers as kids it probably frowned up on now.
A group of us flew with Dan Air in the early 1970's - Gatwick to Athens, pretty sure it was in a DH Comet too; we were so crammed in, that seated facing one another I had one leg between the two of a young woman sitting opposite me and naturally, she had one of hers between mine.So you have travelled by Dan Air then...![]()