Does anyone know if there have been any significant changes at Thurleigh recently?
Apparently Jonathan Palmer's motorsport company reopened the eastern 1000m of the main runway in 2008 and their website shows it as active. However, when you zoom out in Google maps over Thurleigh, it appears brown, like it was ripped up, whilst the rest appears grey (as if still extant). I can find no website or photo showing that it has been removed but I am just wondering what the true state is.
Probably never would have happened, but it was one of the UK's largest runways and could have been useful for something (apart from its inconvenient location).
Bedford (Thurleigh) aerodrome
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Try this Toby 
http://www.bedfordaerodrome.com/photo-gallery.aspx
Hope that helps in some way
Kind regards as always
John
http://www.bedfordaerodrome.com/photo-gallery.aspx
Hope that helps in some way
Kind regards as always
John
Last edited by John on 04 Aug 2012, 21:44, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Bedford (Thurleigh) aerodrome
Hi John,
Was there supposed to be a link in your post? If so, its not showing for me
In Google maps, it appears as in GHD's post when zoomed in, but when zoomed out to the satellite level, it appears to be brown right up until the cross runway, which goes beyond where the reopened runway is (was?) including the first part of the vehicle storage area. Of course at this scale it's hard to discern and it's equally difficult to know exactly how old photos are - the copyright dates are misleading:
Was there supposed to be a link in your post? If so, its not showing for me
In Google maps, it appears as in GHD's post when zoomed in, but when zoomed out to the satellite level, it appears to be brown right up until the cross runway, which goes beyond where the reopened runway is (was?) including the first part of the vehicle storage area. Of course at this scale it's hard to discern and it's equally difficult to know exactly how old photos are - the copyright dates are misleading:
Re: Bedford (Thurleigh) aerodrome
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Your link is showing in both posts now! Perhapss I am looking for something that does not exist (the non existent runway!) I had found all of those pics, I was expecting to find something to "confirm" what "appears" to show in the satellite image but perhaps it's a trick of the camera?
Re: Bedford (Thurleigh) aerodrome
well I know the differing altitude images can be taken from differing sources and times and at one point that end of the runway was very brown...
http://www.key.aero/central/images/news/2390.jpg
and very dark...
http://www.airplane-pictures.net/images ... /20670.jpg
Kind regards
John
http://www.key.aero/central/images/news/2390.jpg
and very dark...
http://www.airplane-pictures.net/images ... /20670.jpg
Kind regards
John
never give up, never surrender
