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© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.1 Ludham with offset approach from the East. Remarkably this airstrip is all that remains of this former a RAF Station. April 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.2 View whilst taking off from Ludham April 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.3 Typical shot of the Norfolk Broads en-route Beccles just across the county boundary in Suffolk. April 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.4 Taking off from Beccles. Tractor just visible on left is undertaking the endless task of filling in the cracks on the concrete runway. April 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.5 Leaving Beccles. Active airfield is visible in foreground. April 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.6 Crossing back into Norfolk. Short finals for Seething April 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.7 Oscar Fox parked for lunch at Seething. April 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.8 Passing abeam RAF Watton with its four massive C type hangars evident April 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.9 En-route to Sleap passing overhead Spanhoe. Runway 27 below is former peri-track. This airfield was used by USAAF, C47 aircraft to drop paratroopers for the 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy and then again in September that year in Holland for Operation 'Market' (Garden). June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.10 Passing overhead Leicester at 2000 ft. June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.11 Disused airfield at Wheaton Aston. Its war time role was to train overseas pilots on coping with the British weather. Open between 1941 and 1947 the predominant training aircraft based here was the Airspeed Oxford. For a time it was reputedly the busiest airfield in the country. June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.12, 13.13 & 13.14 Aerobatic competition at Sleap. Flight line and Alan Cassidy taking off in an Extra 300 June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.15 Departing Sleap a former Wellington base. Welsh foothills visible out to the west June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.16 Approaching Peplow Airfield, also known as HMS Godwit. Shropshire must have had the one of the highest concentrations of airfields during the war with no less than ten in a fifteen mile radius June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.17 & 13.18 A couple of shots of a small microlight strip spotted on the way home near Twycross. June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.19 River Welland at Harringworth with its well known viaduct. Built between 1874 and 79 for the LMS railway company it has 82 arches spanning the valley, a length of three quarters of a mile. June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.20 Back at Sibson. The parachute clubs aerial carriage for the 2006 summer season waiting for its next load of 'jumpers'. A Hungarian, Dornier 28 turboprop June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.21 Enroute between Sibson and Deauville passing over the Thames at Purfleet. June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.22 Only 75 miles of water ahead. Coasting out over Sussex. June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.23 English Channel with container ship 'Encounter' below June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.24 Returning To Sibson from Rochester. River Thames view to West over Tilbury Ness. June 2006
© Andy Clarke Photo. 13.25 A quiet Thursday morning at Tilbury Docks June 2006
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