Anyone know how long this pair have been standing out in the salt, seems a real shame they should go the way of so many well intentioned ‘Preservations’ if someone really is interested in getting one back up and running again.

Ringmer co-ords

Sorry for the delay, but if anyones still interested the co-ordinates of this rumoured base are N50’54’13.33 E000’06’31.99.

Sadly Google does not bring up a very clear picture of the area in question but Live local does.

The rubble and fitting were when I last looked located directly at the above co-ords which is in a dipped area we cleared at the time to allow launching at a more acute angle on the field, it was clear a building had once stood there and that from the look of the age and type of fittings was from some years back, I wondered at the time if it had anything to do with the Airship base that was once located at Polegate but again could not find anything more about the location or anything linking the two. I must stress that this is just a local tale picked up while we were asking about the rubble at the time and came from the farmer who owned the fields that now make up the ESGC club site.

Ok, here one too throw into the pot…Former RAF/USAF base Sculthorpe, anyone know the ID letters it held while open, was passing there the other night and got turned over by a group of hedge hopping army types taking the old place for a spin and it brought the question to mind.

Finningley was a very nice airfield to visit on show days, but I have a question as this ones all about airfields,….. Has anyone got an overview of Bruntingthorpe when it was operational, interested in that time frame through a scenery creation project for FS9.?

Maybe someone could answer this question for me, Alongside the A1 at a place signed WOOLFOX DEPOT on the eastern edge of the road there appears to be the remains of an airfield quite a lot fo which appears to remain intact, I have flown over the area several times but can find no refrence to the original name of the place, standard ‘A’ layout of the runways with peritracks still used in some areas, any ideas???? :confused:

The sale of Bentley, Ruislip and Uxbridge should come as no surprise to anyone, they are prime ‘Two Jags’ grazing land, what folks should be asking is what is happening to the money realised when the armed forces, what remains of them is in such a state, Guns that will not work correctly, Vehicles that are not maintained or are not up to the job in hand, Boots that fall apart, we have all heard the tales of woe and read the articles associated with them, people may recall all of this when they next place a cross on a ballot paper and they may also recall Churchill’s incessant grumbling about just this very subject way back in the thirties, he got no joy until the bullets started to fly, right now we have a situation were commanders in the field have too ‘Book’ a helicopter or a tank days in advance because there are so few in service or serviceable due to financial constraints, were they have to consider which soldiers they can send up front because they are so short of the correct protective clothing and on it goes, but the responsibility for this rests with non descript people who have little concern for such things other than the price, who view land as a financial nest egg to shore up Whitehall pension schemes. 😡

Saw a minor documentry once surrounding a Spit that was recovered from a group of airframes, it was flown out of the area eventually after a few new misses but did not follow what happened to it after that, maybe it was this range but cannot recall the exact details.