RAF cowden

The A10 rounds are ok as they were only ball ammunition with no explosives etc in them….although they are not pleasant being on the receiving end of them in my experience!!

Now the 28lbers they are a different kettle of fish!!

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whoop’s bang splatter – i regret to inform you your son is dead because your dad was a moron

Like that old seaside postcard joke “Dad I’ve found a shell………”

thanks A225HVY ive heard a few stories about munitions on the beach. ive seen a fair bit myself obviously not touched it but ive heard of a few that had, one guy took his lad down there (only five or six years old) found this bomb 3 foot in length, stood it up on his tail fin and proceeded to whack the percusion cap as hard as he could with a bit of masonry he had found, dumb or what? imagine the mess if any, i saw one guy with a carrier bag full of A10 rounds as well not good………

I was at Cowden in the early 80’s(81-83) It was then an Air Weapons Range and had been for quite a while but initially it had been a tank range with moving targets on rails. Some of the infrastructure was still there towards the west of the range towards the old tower on the hill (now gone). Don’t know how much is left due to coastal erosion but when I was there a lot of 50’s and 60’s munitions were falling out of the cliff face on a regular basis. I was also there for the Black Buck practice bombing on target 8 out to see where the Vulcan was dropping 28lb smoke and flash practice bombs from if my memory serves me right 28000ft straight through the airway!!

Also had a Vulcan doing a laydown attack on TGT 8 from Spurn Point direction on a murky day, he called off hot we called no spot. Donna Nook the next range south of the Humber called up and asked if we had a vulcan go through on TGT8 as they had one exactly the same as ours, we said yes, they said score was 50ft 6 0’clock!!

Happy days 🙂

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