By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 16:15
Does the dog use FIDO for landings 😀
By: vulcan558 - 26th October 2006 at 15:46
Beat me to it,
just down the rd from me . i walk my dog over the back of the old strip.
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 14:43
Full marks Moondance. The airfield goes back to the 1930s when Air Service Training created the site. Avro Cadets were based here for pilot training. During the war many Oxfords built in Coventry were assembled and flown from here – I seem to remember that Mossies likewise. An engine development works was here and through absorption etc it eventually became a Rolls-Royce site. Rocket development work was also done here and today marine turbines are the order of the day I believe. The field was opened again specially to aircraft during a RR open day when the Moth Club were invited to attend. A Tiger + the machine depicted turned up and I was possibly the only one there with a camera as I’ve never seen a published photo of the occasion. The following link shows another overhead view with map rollover.http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?scale=25000&icon=x&lat=%2052.4294&lon=-1.40694&mapsize=big
By: Moondance - 26th October 2006 at 14:24
Could it be Ansty?
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 14:01
No sorry (I think that’s in Leicestershire)
By: Kenbo - 26th October 2006 at 13:47
Desford perhaps??
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 13:46
Give us clue Tim, like county? :confused:
It’s in Warwickshire :diablo:
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 13:40
No not in Derbyshire.
By: ALBERT ROSS - 26th October 2006 at 13:38
Burnaston?
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 13:22
Sorry not Coventry/Baginton, Lutterworth or Hucknall but one of you isn’t far away with your answer.
By: Yak 11 Fan - 26th October 2006 at 13:14
or Hucknall?
By: ALBERT ROSS - 26th October 2006 at 13:02
Lutterworth?
By: Yak 11 Fan - 26th October 2006 at 13:01
Coventry?
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 12:54
OK some big clues: I have a prop off an Avro Cadet – it could well have flown on an aircraft based at this place, which also has strong connections with the Airspeed Oxford and with jet engine development.
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 12:45
Sorry chaps, neither Newton nor HG.
By: Old Git - 26th October 2006 at 12:33
Halfpenny Green
By: Ant.H - 26th October 2006 at 12:24
RAF Newton?
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 11:37
Cosford?
Not Cosford.
By: inchverry - 26th October 2006 at 11:18
where
Cosford?
By: Consul - 26th October 2006 at 10:51
Clue – it’s in the Midlands
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