probinhodge
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Reged: 06/27/08
Posts: 1
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Along with the list in Great Britain you have also listed those in Northern Ireland. You would be correct in saying the list covers the United Kingdom...but as NI is not in Great Britain you are quite incorrect in including those sites in NI.
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b8man
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Reged: 01/07/08
Posts: 1
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Your icon for RAF Filton is bang on for the main apron and the group of two hangars with flight office in centre. All the other buildings appear to have been demolished. It is, after all, 54 years since I spent week-ends there.
I hope you can add a note to the effect that 501 (County of Gloucester) squadron R.Aux.A.F. was active there from 1946 to 1957 when it was stood down.
Plenty of details on Wikipedia
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n0bster
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Reged: 07/02/08
Posts: 1
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RAF Pen Olver is marked too far North - it's 0.55 miles South of the current marker, just to the right of the marker for The Lizard Cold War ROC Bunker. The radar site shows as a square patch of concrete with the concrete bases for the antenna still clearly visible.
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<Document>
<name>KmlFile</name>
<Style id="sh_ylw-pushpin">
<IconStyle>
<scale>1.3</scale>
<Icon>
<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin/ylw-pushpin.png</href>
</Icon>
<hotSpot x="20" y="2" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/>
</IconStyle>
</Style>
<StyleMap id="msn_ylw-pushpin">
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<key>normal</key>
<styleUrl>#sn_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl>
</Pair>
<Pair>
<key>highlight</key>
<styleUrl>#sh_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl>
</Pair>
</StyleMap>
<Style id="sn_ylw-pushpin">
<IconStyle>
<scale>1.1</scale>
<Icon>
<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin/ylw-pushpin.png</href>
</Icon>
<hotSpot x="20" y="2" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/>
</IconStyle>
</Style>
<Placemark>
<name>RAF Pen Olver</name>
<description>WWII Radar Station at the Lizard. I believe the buildings South-East of the site were used as barracks, including Lloyds Signal Station, the oldest surviving purpose-built wireless communications station in the world - which served as the Officers' Mess.</description>
<LookAt>
<longitude>-5.188840867372291</longitude>
<latitude>49.96478122515472</latitude>
<altitude>0</altitude>
<range>230.2424258617399</range>
<tilt>1.402688605856006e-010</tilt>
<heading>0.002291189931619294</heading>
<altitudeMode>relativeToGround</altitudeMode>
</LookAt>
<styleUrl>#msn_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl>
<Point>
<coordinates>-5.189057387268562,49.96478786263289,0</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
</Document>
</kml>
Sorry, this is my first post and I have yet to find out the best way to "embed" a Placemark thingie. Hope this is okay.
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lebrits
Tourist
Reged: 07/26/08
Posts: 2
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Thanks for such a great file of information. Well done.
By the way, just out of interest, RAF Wing in Buckinghamshire was closed as you say in 1960, but it was kept on as government property for some time afterwards as the favoured site for the third London airport until very vociferous opposition and some air traffic control practicalities killed the notion in the early 1970's. As we now know, Stansted became the eventual site of that third airport (thankfully for us locals on the Bucks/Beds border, but sadly for the suffering locals in the Stansted area).
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