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Old 10th Sep 2012, 17:50
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enicalyth
 
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Cublington?

Is that Stewkley by another name? It's got Leighton Buzzard to the East [BUZAD], Stewkley/Milton Keynes to the North with Woburn [WOBUN] to help orientation and the ground doesnt half roll off steeply when you have finished looking at the flat bit. Stewkley was in the frame in the very late 1960's but think on. The Bucks-Oxford county boundary reflects the terrain and you see in particular how it unfolds if you imagine a line drawn from Brize Norton to Cublington "A". Bounded by cumulus built-up-itis to the east and the Vale to the West the scope for a runway is now much less than it was. I used to refer to the "golf course" twixt Tubney and Frilford as the "proposed" RAF Abingdon Rwy 26 extension when supping some stuff in the "Feathers". It certainly ruffled the plumage. No sense of humour the Brits. Dear God! Forty four years on.... Is the "Feathers" still there, stands the church etc across Barrow Road and is there chicken in the basket for tea?
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