Spent many a happy hour during my childhood lurking near the fence up the Napsbury cottages end of the field. How the inhabitants of those houses coped with having a V-bomber run up to full power before launching escapes me – they were about 100 yards or so from the pan, the buildings must have trembled.
At one point in time there was a railway running across the airfield site, connecting the St.Pancras line with the ‘Abbey Flyer’ line from St.Albans to Watford Junction, but this was taken up before H-Page arrived.
Can anybody tell me what the pylon-like thingy mounted on a circular track adjacent to the wind tunnel was for ? It’s been puzzling me for the past 50 years.
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