theconrodkid
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| posted on 6/3/06 at 07:39 PM |
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newmarket
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? 
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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UncleFista
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| posted on 6/3/06 at 07:52 PM |
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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...
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 6/3/06 at 08:06 PM |
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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?
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 6/3/06 at 08:13 PM |
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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 .
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 6/3/06 at 08:56 PM |
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Are you going to mount that on the car, Paul?
(Or will you just hold hands! - sorry - old Kenny Everett joke)
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907
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| posted on 6/3/06 at 09:00 PM |
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Working on a roll bar mount at the moment David.
Paul G
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907
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| posted on 6/3/06 at 09:05 PM |
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This post is supposed to be after Rusty Nuts' post
Didn't spot any of these laying about did you?
Paul G
[Edited on 6/3/06 by 907]
 
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907
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| posted on 6/3/06 at 09:07 PM |
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I balls that up didn't I?
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 7/3/06 at 06:43 AM |
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rusty,its on the other side of the A14 to the race course,1 large hanger there now
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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tractorboy
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| posted on 7/3/06 at 02:42 PM |
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is it the one between exning and burwell on heath road behind the 1000 guineas bp petrol station( east bound a14)? cheers scott
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tractorboy
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| posted on 7/3/06 at 02:56 PM |
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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
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 7/3/06 at 06:08 PM |
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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?
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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