Originally Posted by
Downwind.Maddl-Land
It is now - it wasn't then! (I was OC Butcher Radar at the time)
(Check Google Earth - poor quality image from 1970 shows the basic runway outline; measure facility shows roughly 6000ft)
It was even shorter for a couple of days, when a Harrier pilot melted the surface down to the limestone, about a third of the way in......
