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Airfield Recognition

Below are 3 8th Airforce airfields in East Anglia, all taken in September last year, anyone want to have a go at identifying them?

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By: Yak 11 Fan - 27th April 2003 at 20:09

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I’m no pilot, but I’ve been involved with vintage aircraft in one way and another for 19 years now. The Mustang is owned by a friend of mine and is truly beautiful and a credit to the owner.
As for the Yak 11, it’s a very under rated aircraft which deserves more recognition and a type which I have been fortunate enough to have been involved in the restoration of a couple of them.

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By: Ant.H - 27th April 2003 at 12:52

Thanks for those Yak 🙂

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By: EGNM - 27th April 2003 at 12:04

Yak 11 – i’ve just started browsing here from AW – all i can say is u’re one lucky sod! – what a beautiful P-51 – whats the link do u actually fly her, and what about the Yak, another toy u use??

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By: Yak 11 Fan - 26th April 2003 at 23:34

Just to balance thing out however… Heres one that was prepared earlier

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By: Yak 11 Fan - 26th April 2003 at 23:31

Last one of Janie for now

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By: Yak 11 Fan - 26th April 2003 at 23:28

Good point about the F6D

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By: Yak 11 Fan - 26th April 2003 at 23:27

more

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By: Yak 11 Fan - 26th April 2003 at 23:25

another

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By: Yak 11 Fan - 26th April 2003 at 23:23

OK Ant, here goes

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By: David Burke - 26th April 2003 at 23:21

I think someone should build a ‘new’ F-6D so you don’t have to lug the camera around with you!

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By: Ant.H - 26th April 2003 at 23:14

Some of Janie herself wouldn’t go amiss Yak. 🙂

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By: Yak 11 Fan - 26th April 2003 at 22:36

3 out of 3, I’ll have to dig out some other pics now

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By: macky42 - 26th April 2003 at 22:23

Tibenham!

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By: Yak 11 Fan - 26th April 2003 at 21:11

Number one is indeed Thorpe Abbotts, just number two to get now.

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By: Moggy C - 26th April 2003 at 09:11

I’d guess that 2 is Shipdham?

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You will realise that CAA rules preclude the ‘advertising’ of shared flights.

If it didn’t I would mention here that anybody who fancied a cost share flight over the old airfields of East Anglia should contact me by private message.

However since the rules forbid this you shouldn’t.

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By: macky42 - 25th April 2003 at 22:46

For anyone that uses FS2002, you can get scenery based on the ‘millenium map’ aerial photographic survey of the UK. I have spent many hours bumbling around over East Anglia using ‘Airfields of the Eighth’ as a guide, and it was very interesting to see the contrast between those airfields that have remained much the same since the book was produced 25 years ago, and those that have all but disappeared now.

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By: macky42 - 25th April 2003 at 22:31

And 1 is Thorpe Abbotts

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By: Yak 11 Fan - 25th April 2003 at 22:25

Snapper, You got the aircraft

Macky42, number 3 is Eye

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By: macky42 - 25th April 2003 at 21:54

3 is Eye, Eye think.

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By: Snapper - 25th April 2003 at 21:46

Hardwick, Seething, Flixton, taken from the back of Janie.

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