Google Earth and Long Marston airfield
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Google Earth and Long Marston airfield
Made curious by the RAF Gaydon post I looked up Long Marston on Google Earth.
There it was still with its shambles of a Jet Museum [Not!] and then I used the history slider and went back to 1945 - vanished and the camouflage can't have been that good! Or could it?
It started as an airfield back in 1941 didn't it?
So why had it vanished in 1945 and reappeared in time for me to fly from there in 1988/9?
Or is the early pic actually prewar or before 1941?
There it was still with its shambles of a Jet Museum [Not!] and then I used the history slider and went back to 1945 - vanished and the camouflage can't have been that good! Or could it?
It started as an airfield back in 1941 didn't it?
So why had it vanished in 1945 and reappeared in time for me to fly from there in 1988/9?
Or is the early pic actually prewar or before 1941?
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A number of airfields were "painted" in on imagery of that period seemingly on a arbtitary basis.
I think if you look at Hullavington and blow up the 1945 imagery the "painting" is quite crude
I think if you look at Hullavington and blow up the 1945 imagery the "painting" is quite crude
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Discussed this a bit previously here:
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ml#post6468506
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...ml#post6176937
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ml#post6468506
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...ml#post6176937
