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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).
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 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
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Jenkins,
Not a serious issue in my day. At Song Song they would call on the last pass and join up on the range to track for initial 36 (usually via west of Penang) or depart the range in trail for a down wind rejoin. Fitting them in a busy GCA pattern for 18 was sporting, to say the least, particularly if we had a Bulldog in the sequence. .
The bombing I observed near Bukit Mertajam, as noted in my post was real time against CT's. But don't tell the Australian Government: they still insist the actions at the time I was there were "not warlike". Guess those black bags being taken off the TUDM Alouettes on many afternoons contained body shaped logs. Only last week I was explaining to an associate here in paradise the difference between POB and SOB.
MJG
Not a serious issue in my day. At Song Song they would call on the last pass and join up on the range to track for initial 36 (usually via west of Penang) or depart the range in trail for a down wind rejoin. Fitting them in a busy GCA pattern for 18 was sporting, to say the least, particularly if we had a Bulldog in the sequence. .
The bombing I observed near Bukit Mertajam, as noted in my post was real time against CT's. But don't tell the Australian Government: they still insist the actions at the time I was there were "not warlike". Guess those black bags being taken off the TUDM Alouettes on many afternoons contained body shaped logs. Only last week I was explaining to an associate here in paradise the difference between POB and SOB.
MJG
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Not Westcott. Father retired from Royal Air Force in 1975, so this station was still being maintained at that time. I believe that on his return from India in 1946 he disembarked, from bomb-bay of Liberator, at Oakley, just down the road from Westcott.
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Not West Raynham. Raynham a far lovelier spot than this. Here we have a very aged, in aviation terms, British airfield. Royal Air Force flying ceased here in mid-1970's; little is left, bar an occasional crash gate ( remember those? ). I believe that the present occupants have named the place after a school in which two of this parish have taught.
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Here is another view, building underway and some of it in flames since then. I can make out the house occupied by my parents long ago, in the lovely days before the local market town became the place it is now. For the obscure of mind, there is a one-word cryptic clue in my earlier ramblings.
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Over Dover, on handover, with a Landrover, for Andover........Over. Or words to that effect, silly really. A lovely grass field, wonder what Spitalgate and others of that ilk are like these days. Marlborough Lines, Co-op, Ocado to come.....and go.
All yours Sycamore. Familiar from ETPS days?
All yours Sycamore. Familiar from ETPS days?
Jenks,lived in `Andover for a couple of years; the dual carriageway wasn`t then,but my Mini knew the way home,like a good horse,especially on TGIF; knew all the laybys,marked with `purple-rain`...
Sorry,it`ll have to be OH.....
Sorry,it`ll have to be OH.....
I flew over Andover on a cross-country during my PPL. A wonderful grass airfield. I never would have recognized its current incarnation. At least there’s still an airfield of sorts, if you look carefully. Part of Marlborough Lines:
But it is neither
It was a European side (no longer exists)
Not UK
