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AfgAirOps
28th Jul 2013, 17:46
From another forum.......
http://i39.tinypic.com/33o1x91.png
Trying to identify the airport shown here. Pic taken in 1976 during a flight from Frankfurt to Detroit. OP doesn't know at what stage in the flight it was taken, I believe the size / irregular shape of the fields is typical of the UK.
Anybody know where it might be please?
Cheers
AAO
chevvron
28th Jul 2013, 18:46
Brawdy from the north, which means the aircraft was travelling east not west!
evansb
28th Jul 2013, 18:46
RAF Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
AfgAirOps
28th Jul 2013, 19:01
Mucho thanks gents!
Capot
28th Jul 2013, 19:55
which means the aircraft was travelling east not west!
Unless that's not the front of a nacelle....although I agree it looks like exactly that.
chevvron
29th Jul 2013, 01:23
Not sure when the Navy moved out; was it RAF in 76?
Kieron Kirk
29th Jul 2013, 15:36
Not sure when the Navy moved out; was it RAF in 76?
Yes.
Chiarain.
ExAscoteer
29th Jul 2013, 16:33
Originally opened as an RAF Station, the Navy took it over in 1946, the airfield becoming HMS Goldcrest in 1952.
The Navy left in 1971 and the RAF moved back in 1974 and relinquished it in 1992.
Since 1995 it has been occupied by 14 Signals Regt as Cawdor Barracks.
Wander00
29th Jul 2013, 20:00
But Cawdor (as in the Scottish Play) is in Northern Scotland.......................
Tony the tiger
31st Jul 2013, 23:54
Definitely Brawdy.
Blacksheep
2nd Aug 2013, 19:29
The Matelots called it HMS Goldcrest but that's just the unit occupying it. Like the RAF Stations used by the cousins it remained RAF Brawdy as the signboard said when we detached there with our Vulcans in the sixties. (The sailors never seemed happy to see us, for some reason)