There was a taxi waiting where the aircraft came to a halt so that they could avoid the muddy dirt of the airfield. |
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The Army team identified the device as a dummy bomb, used for target practice when the site was an airfield during the Second World War. |
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Over 300 houses have also been built there and the airfield is not disused. |
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The forced entry may be the result of a predetermined or notional plan to seize an airfield following or during combat operations. |
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The gyrocopter is believed to have taken off from a local airfield and the identities of the deceased are due to be released today. |
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Just beyond the camp is a large airfield where dozens of helicopter gunships and MiG fighter jets are protected by concrete bomb shelters. |
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The five-mile precast guideway, 50 ft high, required 30,000 night gate closures, airfield work and 300,000 sq ft of terminal renovation. |
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It was an emotional event as the veterans, most of whom either served at the airfield as pilots or ground staff, met for the first time in years. |
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The most unlikely volunteers recently joined with the PMG's small engineering detachment to assist in emergency airfield repairs. |
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If he does not produce the goods at Silverstone, Sunday will prove his last run around the old airfield. |
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During the war, the airfield was used by Dakota aircraft and gliders preparing for the D-Day and Arnhem landings. |
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They had infiltrated a military airfield, and this was regarded as prejudicial to the state's interests. |
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They named the airfield for an aviator who had died gallantly during the Battle of Midway. |
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I live within earshot of the airfield and get an enormous thrill from hearing and watching the activities on the airfield. |
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The rest are being cared for by the remaining medical staff at the field hospital, at Bagram airfield in Afghanistan. |
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A heating method using oil-burning heaters arranged along the edge of an airfield runway was used during the second World War to disperse fog. |
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The natural surroundings of the airfield, draped in early morning mist, look too lush and fecund for a country gripped by a grim war. |
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This position would give them a commanding view of the main doors to the hangar as well as the rest of the airfield. |
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In the summer of 1925, he was transferred to a light-bomber squadron as assistant to the airfield commandant. |
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Then he looked out in the distance, far beyond the airfield and the prairie that rushed to meet it. |
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There were thousands of gulls present along with geese, ducks, egrets, and crows all loafing or actively feeding on the airfield. |
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The 1,050 mm diameter outfall on the west side of the airfield required a temporary cofferdam during its construction. |
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My instructor relayed to the senior instructor that we would be returning to the airfield, because we had overstressed the plane. |
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Several enemy aircraft were strafed and destroyed and airfield buildings were attacked. |
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Three people were hurt yesterday when a civilian plane crashed while taking off from an RAF airfield. |
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That apart, all flying and ground activities in the airfield have come to a standstill. |
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In fact so bad were the fires, the bush pilots often had difficulty finding the scrub airfield. |
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We finished the preliminary Pensacola-hospital route by navigating to a nearby training airfield. |
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The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft. |
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The central part of the old airfield remains undeveloped, home to six football pitches, a nature reserve and a model aircraft flying zone. |
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They were called in to intercept incoming bogies and succeeded in downing two PAF F86s out of four that were attacking the airfield. |
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It is the latest chapter in the history of an airfield which once played a key part in the war as a Bomber Command airbase. |
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The airfield is limited to 7,000 civil movements per year and is frequently used for flights by Britain's royal family. |
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Just like they had done during the airfield rescue, the twins were attacking the saucers. |
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Initial concerns were ultimately allayed, for the battle group reached Helmstedt without incident and bivouacked for the night at an airfield. |
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Today, nothing remains of the airfield except for a 500m2 plot of land donated by a farmer which has been turned into a small memorial park. |
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He had arranged to meet his sister at eleven o'clock at a small airfield to the east of Barnstaple. |
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He performed a tactical approach to the airfield, banking the plane 45 degrees in a tight downward spiral to the left. |
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Another option would be to roll the helicopter into a high angle of bank to stay over the airfield and to avoid the trees. |
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They coordinated and conducted an airfield burn of 160 acres, which reduced the safe habitat for small vermin. |
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The circuit uses part of one runway and some taxiways, leaving 75 per cent of the airfield still available for flying operations. |
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British fighter aircraft taking off from West Malling airfield were guided by the terrible orange glow on the horizon. |
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The dad-of-four had five attempts at the record over a mile-long stretch of airfield. |
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According to CAF, the Museum precinct will essentially encompass the buildings, hangars and aprons on the airfield side of Williams Road. |
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The fragments would shred an aeroplane's fuselage and render it inoperable, making the anti-personnel bombs very effective on airfield raids. |
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Because the museum is based on an old RAF airfield, it has a suitable landing strip and hangars big enough to house the aircraft. |
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Trading speed for altitude, Art got the racer up to about 50 feet and managed to make a safe landing at the airfield. |
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We also flew to Crete and bombed the Maleme airfield which was being used to land the German aeroplanes. |
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At the airfield, chaos reigned as rescue crews equipped with fire extinguishers doused the flames emanating from the downed fighter. |
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Since then plans for the former airfield have included everything from a racecourse to a giant recreation ground. |
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The workers involved include firefighters, security staff, engineers, clerical staff and airfield marshallers. |
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Spectators watching the French aerobatic team perform during the air show at an airfield outside Moscow on Saturday. |
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That runway is now called number one runway, and the airfield is called Heathrow! |
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But the pilot of the twin engine veteran aircraft went on to make a safe landing back at the airfield he had taken off from. |
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At first the airfield was a grass landing area and work had not even started on hard runways when the base was opened. |
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It can fly off a ramp or an airfield and land on a field the size of a soccer pitch. |
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Rob taxied the Concorde to an unlit area at the end of the airfield and throttled back the engines to wait. |
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The team performed their aerial display, then broke off to deploy their parachutes and land back at the airfield. |
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As our flight of ten cleared the hills west of the airfield, we caused a panic at the field. |
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Pilot error has been cited as the likely cause of a crash which occurred as a plane took off from an airfield near Keighley. |
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The meadow is now an oasis for wildlife surrounded by arable land and an old airfield. |
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The purpose of going to the airfield can only have been to fly in the aircraft. |
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But one of the islands was just large enough for an airfield and a small harbor, where submarines could rearm and refuel. |
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On September 23 1942 he took off from an airfield near Alexandria on a solo reconnaissance over the Aegean. |
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Not a single plane was ready to take off on that night from Smorodino airfield, whence 45-mm guns were due to follow after the landing force. |
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Hardwick airfield is on private property, so you need to arrange your visit in advance. |
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She will be doing a tandem jump from 13,000 feet with an instructor at Netheravon airfield. |
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When bad weather stopped the jump, the parachute was kept in a store at the airfield that was locked overnight but was left open in the day. |
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He had packed his chute himself before it was put into storage at the airfield ready to be used two days later. |
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It was also used by the RAF for airfield defence, making it a fitting acquisition for the Yorkshire Air Museum. |
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She arrived at Rufforth airfield on a flight from Heathrow and wore a turquoise suit with matching hat and black accessories for the occasion. |
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The Kemble Air Day brought the best examples of vintage jets and warbirds together at one airfield along with modern RAF aircraft. |
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It will see a scientific centre of excellence created at the museum, which stands on the former airfield on the hills above Wroughton. |
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The team performed their aerial display, then broke off to deploy their parachutes and land back at the airfield, in front of a crowd of around 70 people. |
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During her 2011 tour of Canada, a skimpy yellow frock flew skywards on a Calgary airfield. |
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Forklifts shuffle weathered pallets of gear lining the airfield in a super-sized game of Tetris. |
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Heathrow was just a collection of Quonset huts, and the airfield was enrobed in fog. |
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The former minister says he knows the identity of the suicide bomber who hit the Jalalabad airfield today. |
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That it was far more manipulative and more clever to take Esterhase to an airfield and have him get on a plane. |
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Now the chokepoint is, predictably, the airfield at Port au Prince, which lost its air traffic control equipment. |
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Once again, the Americans had essentially reassumed control of the airfield by operating the air traffic control system that extended southward from Thule to Newfoundland. |
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Scattered around the airfield are the remains of many Allied and Japanese aircraft, whose aircrews made the ultimate sacrifice for their countries. |
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Each officer spends every third day of duty at the airfield at Rockaway Beach, where Scuba maintains an air-sea rescue team with two divers and a helicopter pilot. |
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As soon as the aircraft landed, crash crews strategically deployed along the main runway, raced behind the jet until it came to a stop at the end of the airfield. |
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As Predator Drones took off and landed incessantly at the nearby airfield, we chatted over a pot of green tea. |
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The proximity of the enemy to the airfield was illustrated by the fact that the fighters barely had time to retract their undercarriages before commencing attacks. |
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A former fugitive accused of bankrolling a massive skunk cannabis factory at an airfield near Selby has pleaded guilty to being concerned in the production of cannabis. |
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She had somehow heard through the local grapevine that he was going to be flying in and out of this airfield, and she had been casing the area for hours. |
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The single-engined Cessna had taken off from Dunkeswell airfield with the five parachutists on board, all of whom were going to make a drop over the Devon countryside. |
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Suddenly the sail is flapping and useless, the acceleration is gone, and I'm coasting gently towards the edge of the airfield, still steering with my feet. |
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The commander glanced out the window of the control tower of the airfield. |
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Some flightline projects include construction of aircraft arresting systems, airfield lighting, a control tower, radar approach control and squadron operations systems. |
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One psychic described an airfield with a gantry and crane at a set of coordinates that placed it at the Soviet nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk. |
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The story related that after the Navy torpedo bomber made a deadstick landing on the airfield the pilot stepped out of the cockpit and was shot down in cold blood. |
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Shot down on 9 August 1945, while bombing Ominato airfield, an F4U Corsair flown by Lt. Vernon T. Coumbre made a deadstick landing five miles offshore. |
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Essential tools include a bird identification field guide, a map of the airfield with a superimposed grid system for locating birds, and a pair of binoculars. |
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Yet few generator sets were available to provide power, and prime power needed to operate the reefers at Kandahar Airfield was limited. |
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A Scottish piper will play a lament from the control tower at Elvington Airfield during the funeral service in the hangar tomorrow at 12.30 pm. |
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The aircraft is shown leaving the sand bag revetments at Kimpo Airfield in South Korea. |
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As it taxied on the ramp at Bashur Airfield, Iraq, the loadmaster lowered the cargo plane's rear ramp. |
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It was travelling at more than 140 mph as it arrowed along the 1.9 miles of tarmac at Elvington Airfield, near York. |
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A healthy baby boy was delivered in the back of the helicopter on the tarmac at the Comoro Airfield. |
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With the work complete just over a year ago, Airfield opened to the public and is now a hive of activity. |
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Living in such close quarters and facing daily dangers engendered a sense of great camaraderie at the Airfield. |
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I planned to go to the 2000 fly-in at Antique Airfield the first of September where I got to meet my old friend again. |
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The accident happened at the Hirt airfield, near the town of Friesach in the southern province of Carinthia, AP reported. |
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It opened in 1935 and was initially used for military purposes during World War II, before Barrow council purchased the airfield. |
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The airfield was not captured until a month later as the area became the scene of fierce fighting. |
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The capture of Myitkyina airfield nevertheless immediately helped secure the air link from India to Chongqing over the Hump. |
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The Indian Eastern Army intended to reoccupy the Mayu peninsula and Akyab Island, which had an important airfield. |
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Fighter Command had been at its lowest ebb, short of men and machines, and the break from airfield attacks allowed them to recover. |
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As the week drew on, the airfield attacks moved further inland, and repeated raids were made on the radar chain. |
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However, for some raids, they were called back, such as on 13 September to attack Tangmere airfield. |
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East Anglia was ideally suited to airfield construction as it comprises large areas of open, level terrain and is close to mainland Europe. |
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The next year the Royal Automobile Club took a lease on the airfield and set out a more formal racing circuit. |
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One of their members, Maurice Geoghegan, lived in nearby Silverstone village and was aware that the airfield was deserted. |
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Twelve Fireflies and nine Seafires from HMS Triumph armed with rockets attacked Haeju Airfield, damaging hangars and buildings, but no aircraft were sighted. |
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The airfield has now been redeveloped as the modern Gloucester Business Park, with additional housing developments continuing to grow around it. |
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There is an operational airfield at Warton near Preston where there ia a major assembly and test facility for BAE Systems. |
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However, plans to build a tunnel under the runways extension are to be met by 2030 when expansion to the south of the current airfield go ahead. |
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To remain a viable airport it was necessary to update airfield services, and achieve CAT3 status. |
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The largest are located at the south east of the airfield, one of which is used by Ryanair. |
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The station was first allocated to the USAAF Eighth Air Force in August 1942 as a heavy bomber airfield. |
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A small airfield whose primary employment is as a British Army Helicopter Base. |
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This was moved to the western side of the airfield in May 1997 to allow construction of the second runway. |
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Rufforth Airfield has been hosting the Yorkshire Air Spectacular, with flying model craft ranging in size from miniatures to monsters with a 25 ft wingspan. |
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But by the time the airfield was nearing completion, World War II had ended. |
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I write further to your correspondence dated 13 th January 2003 concerning the Local Plan Proposed Modifications as they relate to Old Sarum Airfield. |
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Most of the airfield is in Clifton Hampden parish, but HMS Hornbill was also called RNAS Culham. |
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Although not a public airport, Warton Aerodrome is an active airfield west of the city and is the airfield for the BAE Warton factory. |
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Lotus Cars is based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk. |
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Treasurer Helen Smith has been working steadily on a sponsored slim in preparation for a daring wing walk at Elvington Airfield on August Bank Holiday weekend. |
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Although the weather was poor, heavy raids took place that afternoon on the London suburbs and the airfield at Farnborough. |
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The Joint European Torus is developing fusion power at Culham on a former airfield. |
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The drone has a dwell time of about six hours when operating from an in-theater airfield. |
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The 767 made a miraculous dead stick landing at an abandoned Canadian airfield. |
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Goa International Airport, is a civil enclave at INS Hansa, a Naval airfield located at Dabolim near Vasco da Gama. |
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During the Second World War an airfield, RAF Millom, was developed on flat coastal land at Haverigg. |
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The nearest licensed airfield is Netherthorpe Aerodrome near Worksop in Nottinghamshire, but it is less than 600m of grass. |
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The aircraft reportedly hit a member of the local aviation club who was riding a bicycle to the other end of the airfield to fetch a wind sock. |
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The 2012 National Eisteddfod will take place on the former RAF airfield at Llandow in the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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Usually, the military deploys the initial forces into the nearest airfield to establish a presence. |
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In World War II, a strategic airfield of the Imperial Japanese Army was located there, serving as a base for operations in the Pacific theatre. |
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They were ordered to build an airfield and runway alongside the beach and cleared coconut trees for the task. |
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There is also a considerably smaller local airport at Shoreham and a grass airfield handling light aircraft and helicopters at Goodwood. |
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In May 2013 the airport was purchased by two aviation enthusiasts who plan to promote the airfield. |
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In World War II RAF Exeter was an important RAF Fighter Command airfield during the Battle of Britain. |
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Giant's Castle is an Iron Age cliff castle on the coastal path between the airfield and Porth Hellick Bay. |
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The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements. |
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The Construction Industry Training Board is based on the former airfield of RAF Bircham Newton. |
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Today, a small private airfield is located on part of the wartime facility. |
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Each of the nine islands has an airfield, although the majority are airfields rather than airports. |
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Signature Flight Support are present on the south side of the airfield serving executive aircraft that visit the Airport. |
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The Government accepted his proposal and the Ministry of Aviation promptly began converting the abandoned airfield into a civilian Airport. |
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Also within the Presidio is Crissy Field, a former airfield that was restored to its natural salt marsh ecosystem. |
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The airline's base was at Pengham Moors airfield located to the east of Cardiff. |
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There is no station at Inverness Airport, although the Aberdeen to Inverness Line runs along the southern perimeter of the airfield. |
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On 8 March 2012 the airport owner Infratil announced that they planned to sell the airfield. |
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On 26 December 1944, A Messerschmitt BF109G signalling intentions to surrender crash landed at the airfield. |
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A Spitfire IIa crashed at the east side of the airfield on 19 November 1941 during attack practice with a target glider being towed. |
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The aim of this site was to create the impression of an active airfield during the night. |
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Former Land Girl Nancy Cooper, from Stratford, with a 1937 tractor used during the war at Long Marston airfield. |
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When the war ended the airfield remained under military control, but by the late 1940s the first commercial services were launched. |
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We were testing Thrust 1 at an airfield when one of the wheel bearings failed and I ended up doing a triple barrel roll in mid-air. |
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In 1918 the Royal Air Force was formed and the airfield was named RAF Turnhouse and ownership transferred to the Ministry of Defence. |
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During the 1950s, the airfield housed a large aircraft storage unit and squadrons of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. |
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Around 80 Highland troops left their families and jobs to guard the Sahibah airfield in Basra. |
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At one point there were around 900 aircraft on the airfield awaiting disposal. |
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In turn, Kandahar Airfield, the base of operations for southern Afghanistan, is likely to continue transforming from an expeditionary bulwark to a steady-state installation. |
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By the winter of 1941 the airfield had become so muddy that the Wellingtons of 20 OTU were temporarily relocated to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. |
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One of the Heinkels crashed on the airfield, having either been hit by ground fire or destroyed by its own bombs. |
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The restored control tower of the former World War II airfield is now a listed building. |
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During my first two weeks as an aircraftman with the Airfield Defence Guards in Vietnam, there was a call for volunteers to train as helicopter gunners. |
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It had taken off from Cark airfield in Cumbria, home to the North West Parachute Centre. |
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An airbase, sometimes referred to as an air station or airfield, provides basing and support of military aircraft. |
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A WELSH airfield is among six sites in the running to become Britain's first spaceport, the UK Government announced yesterday. |
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Part of runway maintenance is airfield rubber removal which helps maintain friction levels. |
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The airfield was built using a US task force and went on to be used by more than 25,000 aircraft as a staging point during the war. |
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A light plane undershot the runway and crashed near the Bolshoye Gryzlovo airfield in the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region on Sunday. |
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The United States Army 3rd Infantry Division defeated Iraqi forces entrenched in and around the airfield and bypassed the city to the west. |
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Having taken the airfield with a dozen casualties, the remainder of the battalion flew in by helicopter. |
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It was based in a former airfield, Harwell, Berkshire, and a former Royal Ordnance Factory, Risley in Cheshire. |
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A report has revealed a pilot and passenger narrowly avoided serious injury when their vintage plane crashed at Lower Upham Airfield earlier this year. |
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Air safety is an important concern in the operation of an airport, and almost every airfield includes equipment and procedures for handling emergency situations. |
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The company office is based on the south side of the airfield. |
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Pipers Crisps are on a former airfield next to the A15 at Elsham. |
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Officials said the men appeared to have been practicing touch-and-go landings, which is common at Fox because the airfield is relatively uncrowded. |
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The targeted objects include two military bases and an airfield. |
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He was one of seven parachutists who made the leap from a plane at Headcorn Airfield near Maidstone, Kent. |
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Airfields in Wiltshire include Old Sarum Airfield, Clench Common Airfield and Redlands Airfield. |
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Humberside Police have not named the victim, who died after falling at Hibaldstow Airfield, north Lincolnshire, on Saturday afternoon. |
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This became Old Sarum Airfield, which remains in operation with a single grass runway. |
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At another former airfield at Tockwith, further south, Stage One built the Olympic Cauldron, the glowing Olympic Rings, and the aerial stage objects. |
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Construction work commenced in 1941, and the airfield officially began life on 7 April 1942 when it was taken over by No 53 Operational Training Unit. |
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In November of 2009, Carmanah and ADB Airfield Solutions LLC announced a partnership to provide a line of solar LED airfield lighting in North America and the Caribbean. |
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Another raid in the evening was caught by 501 Squadron but managed to bomb the airfield and camp again, the main bridge, power station, railway and factories. |
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Members of Snowdonia National Park Authority planning committee unanimously backed the project at Llanbedr Airfield, near Harlech yesterday which could create 50 jobs. |
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The new circuit was marked out with oil drums and straw bales and consisted of the perimeter road and the runaways running into the centre of the airfield from two directions. |
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The airport began life around 1934 primarily as a training airfield. |
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Storm Smith, who runs Eshott Airfield in Northumberland, has objected to plans for the 67-metre turbine near the landing strip. |
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The airfield was abandoned at the end of the war and fell into disuse. |
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On our way to the airfield we briefed for the HI-ILS RWY 23, the SHIP-TO-SHORE checklist, as well as ashore particulars regarding carrier pressurized tires and aerobraking. |
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The plane was leased by Flying Fox Aviation, based at Bagby Airfield near Thirsk in North Yorkshire, to Sandtoft Airfield and Flying School. |
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Land availability also made the area ideal for a flight test airfield. |
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Pakistan blocked NATO supply lines and ordered Americans to leave Shamsi Airfield. |
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Former airfield dispersals are also evident in the same vicinity. |
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There are scheduled flights from Broadford Airfield Skye, Colonsay Airport, Islay Airport near Port Ellen and Tiree Airport. |
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The civil engineering work was carried out by the RAF's 5004 Airfield Construction Squadron, Wellesbourne Mountford. |
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The crest at Lossiemouth no longer exists and although little now remains of the airfield at Elgin, the concrete crest is a war memorial for those who served there. |
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The Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, located in the western suburb of Romulus, was in 2010 the 16th busiest airfield in North America measured by passenger traffic. |
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There are several cargo buildings and hangars around the airfield. |
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Bryan Griffiths, 55, is charged with the manslaughter by gross negligence of Warwickshire Hunt member Trevor Morse at Long Marston airfield on March 9 last year. |
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If a facility can identify the problem species, they can direct deterrent or removal efforts and initiate habitat-management programs to make the airfield safer. |
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I completed the Air Assault Course at Sickles Army Airfield in Fulda in March 1993 and proudly wear my wings to this day. |
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Skydive Academy Ltd runs parachuting and skydiving experiences from Shotton Airfield in County Durham. |
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The airfield also has a small commercial terminal handling scheduled and chartered passenger flights from the other islands in the Azores, Europe, Africa, and North America. |
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The site where the second runway was constructed was on the southern airfield boundary, which is near the village of Styal in the Cheshire countryside. |
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The surviving defenders were easily finished off with a few riflebutts and bayonets, and Georg's men found themselves in sole possession of the airfield. |
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Airport crash tender crews are equipped for dealing with airfield accidents, crew and passenger extractions, and the hazards of highly flammable aviation fuel. |
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Jessica embarked on the tandem jump with Red Devil, Lance Corporal Nathan Connolly at Langar Airfield. |
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A new rifle range was built near Rippon Tor to train soldiers, an airfield was constructed on Roborough Down, and a new hutted camp was built at Plasterdown. |
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The base was nicknamed after the western diamondback rattlesnake because of their massive presence during the construction of the Peyote Army Airfield. |
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However, it has now moved production of all aircraft back to Daedalus Airfield and also performs in the European hub for the Cirrus SR20 and SR22 final assembly and delivery. |
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What s wrong if Russia s Rosneft wants to buy rights of modernization of civilian airports of Kyrgyzstan including Manas Airfield once controlled by US Army for 13 years? |
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A TEAM of six from Tamworth took part in a skydive at Langar Airfield to help their friend Katie Edwards, who lives with the rare neuro-muscular condition myasthenia gravis. |
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The Marshall Islands are served by the Marshall Islands International Airport in Majuro, the Bucholz Army Airfield in Kwajalein, and other small airports and airstrips. |
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Smaller airports include Retford Gamston Airport, Nottingham Airport, Leicester Airport, Hucknall Airfield, Sywell Aerodrome, and Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome. |
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Data collection at these locations ended in 2002 and 2001, respectively, and Filton Airfield is currently the nearest weather station to the city. |
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