Originally Posted by
pr00ne
All this talk that Greenham Common would have made a good airport or a tanker base. Take a look at a map, there is a little place called Aldermaston Nuclear bomb factory off one end of the main runway, and a little place called Newbury off the other. It was never going to happen. Good for a few days a year as a major airshow venue and that was it.
too true
what is worse is that the real bomb factory at Burghfield is also prety much on the approach. Aldermaston is the R&D facility... and bloody frightening it looks.....