Agreed Parabellum, you can't leave UXO around a civilian airfield, it is very untidy and may also make anyone who interferes with the same very untidy. In any case Avalon is too small to provide the safety buffers required.
Failure rates for artillery shells are around 25%. I would assume likewise for bombs. In my trampings around in the extremities of the Pucka range many years ago, I came across (read tripped over) quite a bit of unexploded stuff, mostly 25 pounder rounds. What really got my attention was that some of them were time fuzed for airburst and the fuze appeared intact for some reason. I wonder if they cleaned all that stuff up by now?
Last edited by Sunfish; 9th Mar 2013 at 23:25.