It's incredible to compare the effort to present an adequate defence posture back in the 1950s compared with anything today. Finningley, Gaydon, Scampton, Wyton, Waddington, Cottesmore, Marham, Honington, Wittering and Coningsby all subject to a massive expansion plan and after four entire new purpose built airfields, all of an elaborate advanced design, had just been built in West Germany, all at a time when rationing was yet to finish. Its often said that the past is another country, I'd say more like another planet! Of course needless to say, the A15 running along side Scampton had to be rerouted with a bulge in its hitherto straight run in order to accommodate the lengthened runway, wonder what it would be like trying to cut through the beaurocracy of today in such short order to do that.
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