Anyone remember the aircraft target out on Cockerham Sands?
I grew up in Blackpool and we used to go up to the Lakes a lot and sometimes we'd go via Cockerham Sands. I remember seing a large silhouette of an airplane, head on standing on poles and about as big as a billboard. I always figured it was a practice target for gunnery school, especially as downrange would have been out to sea.
It just sort of disappeared over time, probably in the late seventies, but I bet someone here knows the full story.