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Old 4th Jun 2010, 15:25
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The ruts I remember at Halton were two types:
at the north east corner caused by the last Vulcan to land in '67; it managed to touch down about 50 yards inside the boundary!!
at the south east corner; these were actually the remnants of medieval 'strip' farming being humps where the cultivated strips had been. If you landed on one of these you knew about it as you took off again then hit the next one harder! The existence of these was surprising considering the whole airfield had supposedly had steel rod mesh laid under the grass surface (the rods often springing up during the week so that when we arrived on a saturday there were areas of 'bad ground')
Don't recall a Beverley but I was operating there with 613 for only about 6 years '64 to '70 so it must have been before or after that. (thinks - what about the Argosy, was that flown in?)
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