RAF St Mawgan

Perranporth? Thats where I trained and got my PPL back in 2007. Will always love little G-BGIU 🙂

Martin……I was waving like mad…………you didn’t see me??
You can see the the tree felling just to the right of the approach, around my bungalow.

Was on my way to Perranporth and took a number of photos, but that was the closest we got as traffic was departing to the South and so we had to remain clear.

Perhaps another time? 🙂

Best wishes,

Martin

Nice photo of st mawgan.

I’ve got one myself but taken in poor weather a few years ago if anyones interested?

T6flyer Went past today and took this……

Martin……I was waving like mad…………you didn’t see me??

You can see the the tree felling just to the right of the approach, around my bungalow.

Lovely shot T6, trying to squeeze SM and its 9,000ft R/W (clearly narrowed and shortened in your image) into one pic can take some doing!

Nice shot, I remember doing a touch and go in a Nimrod there many a year ago – seem to remember there was a silver Anson parked outside at the time

Went past today and took this……

Martin

Shhhhhhhh…………don’t tell everybody!:D

(There is a photo in ‘my album’ of that era, check it out)

cheers
Baz

…..oh, now that does make me feel old!!
Arrival day, Air day on the BCU, simply the best job in the world !! How I miss it Baz…..

and a couple of kindly fellas used to invite me over the hedge for a drive round in their BCU Land Rover… wonder whatever happened to them?!;)

Shhhhhhhh…………don’t tell everybody!:D

(There is a photo in ‘my album’ of that era, check it out)

cheers
Baz

Glad to hear that the tower might survive. Heaven knows they’ve done enough to try and destroy as much of the airfield as possible already!

Ahh those happy days twenty-odd years ago when I used to pitch-up for the air show arrivals day and a couple of kindly fellas used to invite me over the hedge for a drive round in their BCU Land Rover… wonder whatever happened to them?!;)

Just thinking about this today,good news it’s being saved, looked at the tower today from “our side” of the fence when driving past what used to be ASMT :(, planned to report that it was still standing:D

I know, mind you other old towers didn’t seem to need it, but thats by the by

Double bonus!!:)

I guess it will be too much to ask for the ghastly light alloy cladding to be removed?!

That cladding is what has saved this building from destruction for the last 20 years.

…just remove the metal porta cabins off the met office.

thought that would would make pagens day!!

Double bonus!!:)

I guess it will be too much to ask for the ghastly light alloy cladding to be removed?!

Thank god for that! But I thought it was ‘too close to the R/W’ for CAA guidelines?

I was with a guy that does ‘development’ and he said there are no plans to knock it down, just remove the metal porta cabins off the met office.

thought that would make pagens day!!

Baz

Thank god for that! But I thought it was ‘too close to the R/W’ for CAA guidelines?

If anyone is wondering what we are talking about, St Mawgan has one of only two Very Heavy Transport towers ever built, and they were the largest Air Min design built during WWII.
The other example was at Heathrow, that became dissused in the mid ’50s and believe demolished in the 1970s some time.