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spearhead
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Not Good News

Post by spearhead » Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:59 pm

Saddened that DefenceHQ want to sell RAF Linton-on Ouse Not the best way to mark the RAF100. :grr:

wildcat1
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Re: Not Good News

Post by wildcat1 » Tue Jul 24, 2018 2:20 pm

Agree with you spearhead a great little airfield remember all the Jet Provosts lined up in the 1980s, Fantastic sight.

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Re: Not Good News

Post by PeteHemsley » Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:29 pm

wildcat1 wrote:
Tue Jul 24, 2018 2:20 pm
Agree with you spearhead a great little airfield remember all the Jet Provosts lined up in the 1980s, Fantastic sight.
Fantastic maybe, but no longer needed

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Re: Not Good News

Post by halky68 » Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:34 pm

What some folk don’t realise is that the clause in the lease of the landowner originally stated that if the RAF left the land which the airfield is on including all runways taxi ways etc has to be returned to agriculture and they say it’s a cost saving measure...yeh right!

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Re: Not Good News

Post by Nighthawke » Tue Jul 24, 2018 7:18 pm

Probably a common or similar clause in most situations but how may are still rotting away after years of closure?

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Re: Not Good News

Post by pg1610 » Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:35 am

halky68 wrote:
Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:34 pm
What some folk don’t realise is that the clause in the lease of the landowner originally stated that if the RAF left the land which the airfield is on including all runways taxi ways etc has to be returned to agriculture and they say it’s a cost saving measure...yeh right!
Just get a private contractor to dig up all the concrete for hardcore HS2/Heathrow 3rd runway etc , that way its done with no cost to tax payer (well in theory at least)
Phil

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Re: Not Good News

Post by clarke » Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:54 am

hi
well the south is going to get the absolute lunacy that north of the border has had to endure, we have lost most of our airfields ,etc and commercial bans on military aircraft using civilian airfields eg Edinburgh while our so called competitors rebuild and expand their military,totally unjustified and short on strategic planning.
Dave-c

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