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Old 22nd Nov 2010, 14:27
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TCraft41, Welcome to PPRuNe.

As StbdD said, it's Stoney Cross - a disused wartime airfield, which is used as a Visual Reporting Point for VFR traffic skulking round the edge of the "busy" Bournemouth zone.

IF you are interested in UK airfields, download this Google Earth 'kmz' file:

http://www.rickdavis.co.uk/home/UKAirfields.kmz

Here's the whole of the UK:




Another interesting 'kmz' file that I found recently is http://is.gd/hAMrD
which contains old aerial photos of airfields.

Here's the one for Stoney Cross (with Ab's Grand Slam crater in the top left corner):
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