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Old 17th Feb 2007, 19:19
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Tim McLelland
 
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I don't know if it has already been mentioned but dispersal airfields are shown in a book ADVERTISING..He mentions on page 84 that there were 26 dispersals plus the ten main bases.ORP were found on all but six of them.

I did a book on the same subject (ADVERTISING) a good few years after that old Brookes book. Although it was by no means perfect, I think it was rather better, but the saga of the dispersal airfields is one which has never been questioned until now. Clearly, the list in Humphrey's book isn't accurate and I should have bothered to check this sooner (I foolishly assumed it was correct, even though other snippets in the book are also patently wrong).
I guess the only way we might get something close to a definitive list would be if any former crews can specifically name any airfields and whether they hosted two or four aircraft, and whether they were Valiants, Vulcans or Victors. We might just be able to clarify the situation once and for all? (boy, am I an optimist!).
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