Brize Norton-the wrong airfield?
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The ideal solution is to buy back St.Mawgan or NQY as it's now known , hardly any problems with cluttered airspace ,locals,long runway, plenty of accomodation ,acres of hardstandings, reasonable weather & plenty of Cornish pasties-No problem !
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Ok, I admit a small error, every runway faces in 2 directions, what I meant to say was that you only get one option on direction & of course its reciprocal, at Lyneham you have 4 options total which does prove rather useful at times.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Have a look at Ascension. OK, it is marked 31 but that is the only mark. Not a single wheel track visible but look at 13. Really they could have saved a shed load of paint.
Champagne anyone...?
No cross runway but Heathrow still have 4 options..... 
PN - good point, I guess they could've not bothered building the other end of the runway. Erm.
PN - good point, I guess they could've not bothered building the other end of the runway. Erm.
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The ideal solution is to buy back St.Mawgan or NQY as it's now known , hardly any problems with cluttered airspace ,locals,long runway, plenty of accomodation ,acres of hardstandings, reasonable weather & plenty of Cornish pasties-No problem !
Sadly a little too late. AW saw the potential and moved in.
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'Don't know how Heathrow manages with no cross runway. Civilian amatures!!!'
They used Rwy 05/23 up until 2005, guess the 'amatures' couldn't cope with LAHSO, perhaps they need to see how the USA does it.
They used Rwy 05/23 up until 2005, guess the 'amatures' couldn't cope with LAHSO, perhaps they need to see how the USA does it.
My previous post was intended to be a little tongue in cheek, but my point remains:
There has never been a problem with having only one runway at Brize, and I fail to see how the arrival of the Wiltshire Furniture Van will change that simple fact. The point is that one of the two airfields had to close, and Lyneham's runways (all 4 of them!!) are too small.
Fairford or NEWQUAY??
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There has never been a problem with having only one runway at Brize, and I fail to see how the arrival of the Wiltshire Furniture Van will change that simple fact. The point is that one of the two airfields had to close, and Lyneham's runways (all 4 of them!!) are too small.
Fairford or NEWQUAY??
I'll have a pint of what you're having!!
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Just to add my two pennies worth,
why not relocate lyneham and brize A/C to Cyprus set up a civvy contract for flying them in and then ship the frieght to limassol and truck it to akrotiri.
No more brize you just check in at heathrow get all your op kit from aki stores and as the SBA'a means we can do what we want day or night the herc chaps can do all there tactical stuff to there hearts content.
We have the infrastructure and loads of rooms. I might put in a gems today and explain to the treasury that if we stopped LOA we could almost make money!
why not relocate lyneham and brize A/C to Cyprus set up a civvy contract for flying them in and then ship the frieght to limassol and truck it to akrotiri.
No more brize you just check in at heathrow get all your op kit from aki stores and as the SBA'a means we can do what we want day or night the herc chaps can do all there tactical stuff to there hearts content.
We have the infrastructure and loads of rooms. I might put in a gems today and explain to the treasury that if we stopped LOA we could almost make money!
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I will back you up about Dakar the only other shuttle runway in Africa is Banjul and that is worse than Dakar!
But back to the topic, I have found the attitude of ATC at RAF stations is "variable", it would be very sad to shut a station with an ATC unit that had such a "can do" attitude.
But back to the topic, I have found the attitude of ATC at RAF stations is "variable", it would be very sad to shut a station with an ATC unit that had such a "can do" attitude.
All this talk of the ever-shrinking RAF does make me wonder what it was like 60 or so years ago. I was moving some boxes today and found a Sep 1948 edition of The Aeroplane. Full of information about the British aviation industry as well...
But the item which caught my eyes was this:
OK, probably not all flying stations, but 82 - makes you think.......
*Yes, I know that 'RAF' isn't written like that these days - but that's how it was written then!
But the item which caught my eyes was this:
The R.A.F.* "At Home"
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND people, the exact official figures are 557,650, were guests of the Royal Air Force at the 82 stations which were "At Home" to the public on September 18.
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND people, the exact official figures are 557,650, were guests of the Royal Air Force at the 82 stations which were "At Home" to the public on September 18.
*Yes, I know that 'RAF' isn't written like that these days - but that's how it was written then!
