RAF Bovingdon

Dave Collins
Note the Hornet pictures!

Regards

John

Here is an illuminating shot of the control tower! ( Ten Dead Men)

Thanks for that. ‘Bovi’ is my local, three miles over the hill, and I wander around there quite often. I think I am going to be allowed to drop in in my J3 Cub, on one of the shorter runways (owned by a farmer, who has a PA28) and have often flown over as low as I dare, but with the prison partially on site, it is better not to go nuts!

I ran across some more filming recently in the tower, for some production/movie called ‘Ten Dead Men’, it seemed ultra violent, with everyone getting smacked around and shot at!

In the forum archives are some great shots of Hanover Street and the 5 Mitchells- the search facility should reveal all. As I posted recently on another thread, look at Aboutmyplace website (go to birdseye) and see how complete it still is!

RAF Bovingdon also featured in The Avengers (The Hour That Never Was). In one scene, the airfield’s DP1 crash tender was positioned to the left of the MkIV crash tender, seconds later and the two vehicles had change places – this despite the entire aerodrome being void of people. Good episode and a wonderful insite to an aerodrome – very similar to the opening sequence to The Way to the Stars (RAF Catterick).

When you get to the airfield history scroll to the bottom and click on great pictures of Bovingdon aircraft . Hope this makes it easier as it is not an easy site to get to the meat !!