anyone live near newmarket?
i was working at an old airfield today at exning,opposite the racecourse.
it was suposed to be a bomber base but the surviving hanger and taxiway are only big enough for a fighter.
anyone know who was based there?

The actual racecourse itself was used as a bomber airfield. Maybe the bit you saw was the only bit left ? There won't have been much concrete laid, they'd be grass landing strips I think...

i read about the clerk of the course turning up one day to find a bomber on his beloved turf,its just the hanger and taxiway didnt fit in with the bomber bit.
i thought bombers would need a concrete runway?

Theres loads of WW2 airfields in the area , Bottisham, Bourne , Duxford,(now the Imperial War Museum) Bassingbourne (Memphis Belle was filmed there) Witchford etc but I don't know the Exning one .

Are you going to mount that on the car, Paul?

(Or will you just hold hands! - sorry - old Kenny Everett joke)

Working on a roll bar mount at the moment David.

Paul G

Didn't spot any of these laying about did you?

Paul G

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I balls that up didn't I?

rusty,its on the other side of the A14 to the race course,1 large hanger there now

is it the one between exning and burwell on heath road behind the 1000 guineas bp petrol station( east bound a14)? cheers scott

if this was the airfield . it was part of a bomber command " 3 group" i found the information on this site :- http://www.hellzapoppin.demon.co.uk/orderofbattle.htm cheers scott

cheers for that chaps,i,m into piston aircraft and wanted to know a little about the place.
i noticed duxford has a new hanger.....time for a visit?