Dominator2,
My Post (p.188 #3753 on "Pilot's Brevet").....Great Minds...?
...Half way round, something strikes me as odd. Prewar, there had been a small road running close to that side of the boundary. The runway was extended during the war, a section of the road was closed off, and had been incorporated into the new taxiway. Post war, the road had been reinstated, some 200 ft of the runway had been cut off with an angle-iron and wire fence across. (The useless stub of runway and its verges were a popular picnic spot for the locals; there they could watch the flying as they scoffed their sandwiches..
Perhaps I should have added that, in those rather more robust days (1951), that when the goofers were getting hard up against the fence, and on the centreline, ATC would ask anyone in circuit to "
shift 'em !" (we complied with the greatest of pleasure).
Couldn't do that now. Oh dear, no.
Danny42C
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