whilst burning CD's to my server this evening, I spent an hour or two musing over this site.
Aerial Views Of UK Airports & Airfields
When you think about what was built in the expansion period, maintained during the cold war, and then gradually wound down, maybe only over a mere thirty years, is pretty hard to comprehend.
there are airfields which you can't even see anymore, and some with battered runways with chicken sheds on them. At least they still fly in some shape or form from some, like Wickenby. 1125 men lost their lives flying from that field alone.
Its a changing world, that is for sure. Can you imagine trying to catch up now, to an emerging threat in Europe.........