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Old 29th Nov 2016, 14:48
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by A30yoyo
DaveReidUK....are you sure about the runway pair in direction 15/33 being initially designated 16/34? It's new to me and I thought there was visibly a 10 degree slant relative to the original central 16/34 and it was all before the magnetic shift
Runways Number 2 (the original 16/34) and Number 6 (the later 16R/34L, subsequently 15R/33L) were dead parallel, as can be more easily seen in this 1955 photo than in present-day ones:

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