Originally Posted by superq7
OzBob, thanks for posting the filling station picture, I worked there for years and we used to have an area on the field known as Palm Beach, it's on the right hand side of runway 27 about half way down, anyone know why it was so called ?
I understand the area was decked out with palm trees (to represent Hyderabad or somewhere similar) for the filming of "Cone of Silence" which used the Avro Ashton FTB.
The wiki about the making of the film is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Silence_(film)
The DVD is still available on Amazon ~ well worth a watch for the aircraft footage.