Twister_Ken
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Anybody know the story of what looks like (on Google Earth) an old airfield at 50°48'15.77"N, 1°30'13.62"W
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burgundyben
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dunno, bit tipsy, cant make google earth work and live local does not do the birdseye thing but it might be Stoney Cross which is a quite big ex WW2 airplane run way.
peterb
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Anybody know the story of what looks like (on Google Earth) an old airfield at 50°48'15.77"N, 1°30'13.62"W
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It must have been quite a small field for its position to be quoted to the nearest 10 inches!
I'm pretty sure that this was Stoney Cross. As Scouts during the war we had an annual forestry camp near Lyndhurst, and in 1944 we were taken to Stoney Cross for a look round. If I remember rightly the Americans were operating Marauder medium bombers from there.
Anybody know the story of what looks like (on Google Earth) an old airfield at 50°48'15.77"N, 1°30'13.62"W
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It must have been quite a small field for its position to be quoted to the nearest 10 inches!
I'm pretty sure that this was Stoney Cross. As Scouts during the war we had an annual forestry camp near Lyndhurst, and in 1944 we were taken to Stoney Cross for a look round. If I remember rightly the Americans were operating Marauder medium bombers from there.
JasB
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LymingtonPugwash
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As JasB has posted above.... it is Beaulieu Airfield.... old second world war field and the place where as a youngster we used to go and play, fly kites and model aircraft, then later learn to drive there and late at night it was a great place for taking our various loves for a bit of quiet! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Then just past it to the east, at the joining of the Brockenhurst/Beaulieu and Lymington/Beaulieu roads is Hatchet Pond where we spent many a long night and day fishing and hoping to be the ones to catch the legendary monster pike which was reputed to have grabbed horses and small kids paddling at the water's edge and pulled them in! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Then just past it to the east, at the joining of the Brockenhurst/Beaulieu and Lymington/Beaulieu roads is Hatchet Pond where we spent many a long night and day fishing and hoping to be the ones to catch the legendary monster pike which was reputed to have grabbed horses and small kids paddling at the water's edge and pulled them in! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
JasB
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/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I thought the only horse-eating-pike was in Hatfield...there was more than one???!!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
LymingtonPugwash
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/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I thought the only horse-eating-pike was in Hatfield...there was more than one???!!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
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Perhaps it's a cousin...... or the same one having it's summer hols in the New Forest? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I thought the only horse-eating-pike was in Hatfield...there was more than one???!!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
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Perhaps it's a cousin...... or the same one having it's summer hols in the New Forest? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
l'escargot
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There were a number of them during WW2, I think they mostly became campsites.
Cornishman
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Thanks for the link. I followed another to RAF Andover at Weyhill which brought back many memories of WW2. I lived about 4 miles away as a boy and recall many of the aircraft listed. Later a school chum's father was adjutant at the RAF Staff College there and we went for a trip (in our school CCF uniforms) in a DH Rapide piloted by the Air Commodore who was the CO getting his hours in. Happy days!
PeteMylett
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For the walkers amongst us there is a nice walk which takes in the old airfield. Start in Brockenhurst, up to the old church, through Roydon Woods, start circle back via old airfield.
For the anthropologists, there even seems to be some sort of hippy colony up near the airfield where bongo practice was going on when I walked past last week.
For the anthropologists, there even seems to be some sort of hippy colony up near the airfield where bongo practice was going on when I walked past last week.
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Anybody know the story of what looks like (on Google Earth) an old airfield at 50°48'15.77"N, 1°30'13.62"W
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As another says - sounds like Beaulieu Airfield .... US and Coastal Command airfield during WW2.
There's a story about a bomber taking off and ploughing through the school hedge .... storys abound with most a/fields !!
Later Mountbatten supported turning over part of the holding aprons to Model Aircraft flying ... a sport that cont's to this day. Depsite some opposition from a certain public person.
The site if you visit ... turn left at Hatchet Pond ... which is past Beualieu Village ... and then right on to the track.
You can still see clearly the roads and runways - as the foundations are deep and difficuult to remove. Grass / gorse finds it difficult to get a hold to grow ..so land is "scarred". The perimter road is mostly still there ... enabling people to take strolls around without having to tackle gorse etc.
If you are at the large tarmac and concrete apron where models fly - don't step over the low wood barrier - without keeping a sharp eye out !! I used to fly various models there, even placed 8th in UK Scale Championships there one year !!
Well worth an afternoon sit and watch the models ... they are certainly not toys !!
One bit that is often mistaken ... various reckon this was the SOE airfield ... not true. That was actually inside Beaulieu manor grounds ...
As to Stoney Cross - at one time my father was based out of there ... and was involved in experimental work (before he transfered to Meddi) ... which incidentally was also jointly conducted at times at Beaulieu ....
Anybody know the story of what looks like (on Google Earth) an old airfield at 50°48'15.77"N, 1°30'13.62"W
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As another says - sounds like Beaulieu Airfield .... US and Coastal Command airfield during WW2.
There's a story about a bomber taking off and ploughing through the school hedge .... storys abound with most a/fields !!
Later Mountbatten supported turning over part of the holding aprons to Model Aircraft flying ... a sport that cont's to this day. Depsite some opposition from a certain public person.
The site if you visit ... turn left at Hatchet Pond ... which is past Beualieu Village ... and then right on to the track.
You can still see clearly the roads and runways - as the foundations are deep and difficuult to remove. Grass / gorse finds it difficult to get a hold to grow ..so land is "scarred". The perimter road is mostly still there ... enabling people to take strolls around without having to tackle gorse etc.
If you are at the large tarmac and concrete apron where models fly - don't step over the low wood barrier - without keeping a sharp eye out !! I used to fly various models there, even placed 8th in UK Scale Championships there one year !!
Well worth an afternoon sit and watch the models ... they are certainly not toys !!
One bit that is often mistaken ... various reckon this was the SOE airfield ... not true. That was actually inside Beaulieu manor grounds ...
As to Stoney Cross - at one time my father was based out of there ... and was involved in experimental work (before he transfered to Meddi) ... which incidentally was also jointly conducted at times at Beaulieu ....
wooslehunter
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Great place to fly models. I flew there for a while recently after taking it back up again - excuse is that #1 son is old enough now and "quite interested".
£5 a year gets you a ticket. British Model Flying Associate membership gets you insured. There's a club there but it's a public site. Follow the BMFA rules so you don't invalidate the insurance or break the law and away you go.
I didn't realise untill I got back into it that even small models are legally classified as aircraft and fall under the Air Navigation Order.
£5 a year gets you a ticket. British Model Flying Associate membership gets you insured. There's a club there but it's a public site. Follow the BMFA rules so you don't invalidate the insurance or break the law and away you go.
I didn't realise untill I got back into it that even small models are legally classified as aircraft and fall under the Air Navigation Order.
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Great place to fly models. I flew there for a while recently after taking it back up again - excuse is that #1 son is old enough now and "quite interested".
£5 a year gets you a ticket. British Model Flying Associate membership gets you insured. There's a club there but it's a public site. Follow the BMFA rules so you don't invalidate the insurance or break the law and away you go.
I didn't realise untill I got back into it that even small models are legally classified as aircraft and fall under the Air Navigation Order.
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I used to fly allsorts there .... Club 20, Formula 40, Scale, Helicopters etc.
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Note the red anorak ... with SMAE badging on ... !! Name before they changed to BMFA ...
The WW1 Nieuport 28 - one you see me rigging the between wing struts on - was the model that placed me 8th position for Scale there ... It was a real pig to fly !! but really looked the part.
Only problem with the location was that it was prone to gusty and strong winds ... so light models often had a problem.
At times we used to have trouble with a certain Speedway team from a Coastal town not too far along the coast .... they would bring bikes for tearing up the area - stopping our flying ... trying to reason with them was impossible ... but I believe that was sorted later ...
We had a few incidents of CB intereference - as the area being falt etc. gave good Tx of Cb gear etc. and of course until we had 35Mhz allocated - we were on 27 with them ... I saw a few models go in from it ...
I have to admit that I would like to restart flying ... but the expense was something else !! I had to have special clause in House Contents ... an estimated value of my collection one year was over £13K .... based on over 12 planes, 5 complete radio outfits, 4 boats, helicopter and 2 cars .... with all the other back-up stuff etc. and thats what I can remember !! I had a 8 x 10 shed dedicated to it ... with tools, benches, jigs etc.
Great place to fly models. I flew there for a while recently after taking it back up again - excuse is that #1 son is old enough now and "quite interested".
£5 a year gets you a ticket. British Model Flying Associate membership gets you insured. There's a club there but it's a public site. Follow the BMFA rules so you don't invalidate the insurance or break the law and away you go.
I didn't realise untill I got back into it that even small models are legally classified as aircraft and fall under the Air Navigation Order.
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I used to fly allsorts there .... Club 20, Formula 40, Scale, Helicopters etc.
.....
Note the red anorak ... with SMAE badging on ... !! Name before they changed to BMFA ...
The WW1 Nieuport 28 - one you see me rigging the between wing struts on - was the model that placed me 8th position for Scale there ... It was a real pig to fly !! but really looked the part.
Only problem with the location was that it was prone to gusty and strong winds ... so light models often had a problem.
At times we used to have trouble with a certain Speedway team from a Coastal town not too far along the coast .... they would bring bikes for tearing up the area - stopping our flying ... trying to reason with them was impossible ... but I believe that was sorted later ...
We had a few incidents of CB intereference - as the area being falt etc. gave good Tx of Cb gear etc. and of course until we had 35Mhz allocated - we were on 27 with them ... I saw a few models go in from it ...
I have to admit that I would like to restart flying ... but the expense was something else !! I had to have special clause in House Contents ... an estimated value of my collection one year was over £13K .... based on over 12 planes, 5 complete radio outfits, 4 boats, helicopter and 2 cars .... with all the other back-up stuff etc. and thats what I can remember !! I had a 8 x 10 shed dedicated to it ... with tools, benches, jigs etc.
