[snip...] > Lincolnshire and East Anglia are *full* of disused airfields - some that > haven't been used in nearly 50 years, others that were only abandoned a > few years ago.
'full' is almost the right word - I'm in that area (Herts/Essex border) and I can think of three closed/abandoned ones within ten miles of me that I explored as a youngster, and I was told there were a couple more that I hadn't known about. The runways had mostly been ploughed under and most of the brick buildings had been demolished and bull-dozed into heaps but there was a lot of reinforced concrete stuff that would've required explosives, and a lot of it, to break it down. I found a large flat mushroom shaped thing at one of them and I've been told that it was an air-raid shelter - apparently it was set low above the ground and the idea was to roll under it in the event of being caught out in the open in a raid. It had a couple of gouges/rough grooves in the top surface that looked, to my eyes, like it had been caused by cannon fire. I've been told that it was mainly Liberators flying out of these fields. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
