Over the years the county's RAF bases have closed and become abandoned or forgotten for numerous ... Aerial photograph of Christchurch Airfield, 1944. Originally starting out life as Christchurch ...
Eggs from endangered birds' nests near RAF air bases that would normally be destroyed have been saved in a pilot conservation project. The curlew eggs, rescued from six MoD airfields in East ...
May 1942 marked the first time that an RAF aircraft crashed at the airfield, with another RAF ... Photographs taken by urban explorers show abandoned buildings at the former air base which have ...
The airfield had opened as RAF Manston in 1916 and during WWII its runway was expanded to three lanes to cope with emergencies, making it one of the widest in Europe. The first enemy planes swept ...
A Lancaster bomber is to conduct a special flypast of Lincolnshire's wartime RAF airfields to mark the 80th anniversary of the Dambusters raids. The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF ...