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Here is a read only link to the Aerodrome Database - WhichAerodrome.xlsx. Up to date as of 1/5/2019. Catching up slowly - up to May 2019 now (Mar 2020).
Here are some "rules" for Which Aerodrome. These are based upon the original suggestions from the very first thread, and have a few additions. Also please be patient as when you are active others may be asleep.
 Thanks to Self Loading Bear for suggesting that we use a wiki. Which Aerodrome I Which Aerodrome II nvubu. 
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Which Aerodrome Mk III
To save your bacon, I'll 'flitch' to suggest another airfield very near Stansted; it's a 'Great' place.
(What the hell is he talking about?; google 'Dunmow Flitch')
OH if correct.
(What the hell is he talking about?; google 'Dunmow Flitch')
OH if correct.
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Yes, well done - you have it with Dunmow, and I didn't have to use that clue, which I was going to around lunchtime today. jensdad - I was contemplating saying "close" but thought that was a bit too much of a give away.
Open House has been called.
Open House has been called.
Don't want to sound 'picky' but my copy of 'Airfields of the Ninth' which I used for reference (my Airfields of the Eighth being somewhere in the bowels of my loft) says the official name was 'Great Dunmow' after (presumably) the nearest post office..
That area is known for sets of towns/villages such as High Roding, Aythorpe Roding, White Roding, Leaden Roding and Abbess Roding but, although "Great" Dunmow exists, unusually there's no "Little" Dunmow now, if ever there was one. So omitting the "Great", whilst strictly incorrect, won't get you to the wrong place.
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I've flown over that one a time or two but would not have recognised it. Under threat from the nearby gravel workings I think. There is in fact a Little Dunmow by the way. Has it's own
Michelin Starred restaurant, the 'Flitch of Bacon'.
Michelin Starred restaurant, the 'Flitch of Bacon'.
Haven't actually flown over there but looking at satellite photos I have to agree; with most WW2 airfields yo can make out at least the perimeter taxiway as at nearby Great Sampford but with Great Dunmow most of the paved surfaces have been removed.
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Neither Craig nor March.
But it is April now and the tulips are flowering and their pickers engaging in an unusual "sport". Not many tulips in this city but they adopted the sport in the 1970's as part of their annual festival, which also celebrates blossoms.
But it is April now and the tulips are flowering and their pickers engaging in an unusual "sport". Not many tulips in this city but they adopted the sport in the 1970's as part of their annual festival, which also celebrates blossoms.
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Commonwealth country but not Canada. Empire Training School activities at the airport during the war but not pilots. Looking at some history for a clue today I see there were some US AAF Units stationed in WW II.
No longer a military establishment That ceased in the 1960's.
When i was there to participate in the "sport' in 1980 we flew in in a C47. About a 2 hour flight from the base where I was stationed at the time.
MJG
No longer a military establishment That ceased in the 1960's.
When i was there to participate in the "sport' in 1980 we flew in in a C47. About a 2 hour flight from the base where I was stationed at the time.
MJG
