By: Propstrike - 2nd July 2011 at 00:14
What am I going to watch now, as I drive down the M4 ?
The road, I suppose.
What a bore 🙁
By: pagen01 - 1st July 2011 at 21:19
Yep very sad news another great station gone, and one with nice sizeable runways and fairly recent upgrade.
I was talking with a Hercules crew the other day and they were gutted about leaving Lyneham, apparently the move to Brize will restrict their training flying activity quite a bit.
In the illustration below there is now no RAF airfield south or west of that yellow line, with Cosford, Brize, Benson, & Odiham on the edge of it, and only one of those is a major fixed wing station. Contrasts quite badly with 1940 what!
By: baloffski - 1st July 2011 at 20:31
It was the end of flying ops at Lyneham today and a very sad day not only for Fat Albert but the RAF as a whole. Never having the romantic attachment for many people that Battle of Britain fighter stations do, it nevertheless has a rich history as this short clip from the BBC shows:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-13987771
Shutting an airfield that has two runways and moving vital transport ops to a location with one and history of closing for fog is folly in the extreme.
End of an era, start of an error in my opinion.
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July 1, 2011 at 1:41 pm