On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:45:53 +0100, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:
And am i right in think that's the skeleton of a dead wartime airfield
just to the east of Stansted:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...wloc=addr&om=1

Yes, and you can easily drive onto the runways of this one, which is fun.

It's amazing how easy they are to spot from the air (assuming they're
not decoys). Which is kind of unfortunate, given the context in which
they were built!

Given the primitive equipment used by the British pilots returning to land
on them, it's rather fortunate they were easy to spot from the air.

That's Great Dunmow, according to my maps. If you pan the map further
east, you can make out Andrews Field, which still has a grass landing
strip, marked 09/27, with the outline of the old runways still
showing.

See
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...wloc=addr&om=1

It's not always easy to tell one airfield from another. A comrade of
mine on a night cross country found himself at Little Rissington,
instead of Pershore, having misread the flashing morse code of "LR"
for "PR". He couldn't understand why he was so close to the ground.
The CFS Meteors were also a shade worried about this slow aircraft (an
Oxford) getting amongst them.
--
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org