I see 190 lived up to it’s reputation right to the end.

🙂

But they had all had quite a hard working life and changes of role… so close to 35 years in service wasn`t bad going.

I read somewhere that HP were planning a civil airliner version… I may be wrong but civil airworthiness certification wouldn`t have been possible with the engines buried in the wing roots….

I was at Syerston that day.. but a bit too young to know what was going on. In fact I live only a few miles away.. near Newton (now no more…)

What I`d give to travel back in time to some of the 50’s and early 60’s BoB displays….

creaking door…

Is there any way you could preserve these images on your site to show the changes over time?

That thought had occurred to me as well… I considered writing a little programme that would work it’s way through the locations at intervals, grab the images and store them… in fact I`m still thinking about it….

But from a practical point of view the problem is one of the view… I chose a default altitude as a starting point for the pages… Ok for most places.. not so hot north of the border sadly… So if the process were automated there wouldn`t be enough detail to be of much use… if a lower altitude were used interesting stuff would be left out…

Just for info the Website in question is mine, and it’s probably worth a few notes on how it came about…

I compile aviation themed crosswords and needed to create a really comprehensive list of UK airfields (past, present etc) and gather a bit of background info for my own reference. Whilst doing this I used many resources including Books, Old Magazines, Websites etc – not to mention submissions from researchers and enthusiasts. (full credits in due course)

I find it helpful to take a look at these airfields in MS Virtual Earth. Obviously the images are a bit dated, but the locations and “atmosphere” can still be of great interest.

I noticed that there didn`t seem to be any Websites with a comprehensive list of airfields with a common location format – ie Grid, Lat Long etc… So I decided to log the locations in decimal lat/long format… Once this was done it was easy to write a little software programme to generate the associated Web Pages for Virtual Earth and KML for Google Earth.

I still have much to do, and am aware of a few errors that need sorting, but the latest versions of the locations are freely downloadable from the Website for others to use as they wish.

Finally for now I have quite a bit of original content to be added to the Website, but it takes time to process it..

PS… It’s interesting to see how some of the locations are remembered in the form of street names… I`ve been jotting some of them down for a feature as I’ve gone along… but if you’re really really bored see how many more you can find.. take a look at Bitteswell (now an industrial estate) is an example..

http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/Bitteswell.html