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Baffin
Nov-03-2016, 10:59
Just for the fun of it, I've been navigating CLoD lately with Google Earth. https://www.google.com/earth/

I found it rather difficult to find some of our more obscure English CLoD airports, until I discovered this listing with links to Google Earth. :hpyflying:

http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/

Shoreham looks just the same... more or less.
Tangmere still shows remains of the grass runway and concrete taxiways.
Wilmington, which is hard to even find on the 'net, is all farmland. (Look close to find a few small foundations.)

Nerdy... but fun!

ATAG_Highseas
Nov-03-2016, 13:03
Just for the fun of it, I've been navigating CLoD lately with Google Earth. https://www.google.com/earth/

I found it rather difficult to find some of our more obscure English CLoD airports, until I discovered this listing with links to Google Earth. :hpyflying:

http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/

Shoreham looks just the same... more or less.
Tangmere still shows remains of the grass runway and concrete taxiways.
Wilmington, which is hard to even find on the 'net, is all farmland. (Look close to find a few small foundations.)

Nerdy... but fun!

I’ve been working on these in various forms over the years.

Shoreham is the most similar... it’s still in service. Other than the tarmac runway which wasn’t built until 1982....

Tangmere is predominantly covered in glass houses and was in part returned to agricultural use.

Ford still has its concrete slab runways (just like in game !) and is used for boot fairs. so you can stroll about the runways buying junk you don’t need... YEY !


Shoreham is easily the most complete (hardly surprising)

and Tangmere, despite being the most famous, is the least complete... mainly as its basically a farm !


Take a look at my UXO survey thread ! fair bit on Shoreham in there !

I'm currently trying to get myself a tour of the old gunnery training dome (as im speding a lot of time on the airfield at present) there are also some old blister hangers up on the northern edge i want to go have a look at.

13sq*Axe
Nov-08-2016, 12:33
Well done Baffin! This is very cool!

LARRY69
Nov-08-2016, 14:43
Some time ago I did research about an airfield in france called Brombos.
http://i1364.photobucket.com/albums/r739/larry691/1-clod%20brombos_zpstshmzr5o.jpg~original

the same place with google earth:

http://i1364.photobucket.com/albums/r739/larry691/brombos_zpsvnxyoo3r.png~original

I think it`s not bad.

ATAG_Highseas
Nov-08-2016, 16:21
Who nicked my surréaliste free standing vélo ?!?!

Can't leave anything smack bang in the middle of a field for 76 years (these days) can you?

dix
Nov-09-2016, 05:18
the streets names at hawkinge are beatiful :D

ATAG_Vampire
Nov-09-2016, 06:41
I bet that one of the street names at Hawkinge is...............RAG TAG ALLEY?


~S~ :salute:

ATAG_Highseas
Nov-09-2016, 06:58
the streets names at hawkinge are beatiful :D

Ha !

Good call Dix.... i just zoomed in !

Nice !

ATAG_Flare
Nov-09-2016, 23:56
When I was in Normandy in 2015 I visited a few airfield sites. Crepon is not even visible anymore, the region looks just like all the other fields and farms nearby. Caen Carpiquet still exists and now has a concrete runway and a small terminal for the regional flights for Air France.