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20 Aug 2021 14:29 - 20 Aug 2021 14:34 #1
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Surveying the area this week and came across this on the runway that became disused at the war, just south of precision approach radar. Any one any ideas, or even better anyone work there and able to tell me?
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20 Aug 2021 15:04 #2
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No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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No idea what it can be but I am now curious. Without the ground level view it would be easy to assume it was a painted feature. It looks like it may be related to the circle and rings feature further south east down the old runway. I was did wonder a few years back if that circle and rings was an FAA ORS target (photographic bombing) but I have never found any mention of one there.
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21 Aug 2021 09:34 #3
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Are those light fittings around the circumference?
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21 Aug 2021 13:11 #4
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Looking at GE shows the feature labeled with a red dot in your second image is also octagonal in shape. (Is that the PAR base?) Both are in line of view with the CT.
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21 Aug 2021 16:59 - 21 Aug 2021 17:23 #5
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There is a similar feature from 2007 on Google Earth about168 ft away on a bearing of 336°
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21 Aug 2021 18:22 #6
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It's the right distance from the runway and situated at the midpoint of both thresholds; the 'light fittings' could be the anchorages for the metal rail on which it rotated and appears to have reinforced, Ballykelly being built on softish ground.
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Pretty certain it is the base for a PAR either SLA 3c or maybe the later CR62; was Ballykelly still open in about '84?Surveying the area this week and came across this on the runway that became disused at the war, just south of precision approach radar. Any one any ideas, or even better anyone work there and able to tell me?
It's the right distance from the runway and situated at the midpoint of both thresholds; the 'light fittings' could be the anchorages for the metal rail on which it rotated and appears to have reinforced, Ballykelly being built on softish ground.
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22 Aug 2021 07:44 #7
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Ah I find the Shackletons moved out in '71 so it would have been the SLA 3c PAR which was a sort of irregular shaped strucrure so I would guess that's what was there.
I was only there for a week in '63, my second ATC summer camp, so I don't recall it; the runway was being re-surfaced at that time so we had to truck to Aldergrove to get a flight.
I was only there for a week in '63, my second ATC summer camp, so I don't recall it; the runway was being re-surfaced at that time so we had to truck to Aldergrove to get a flight.
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16 Sep 2021 13:28 #8
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Aye that's the PAR, a lot more substantial than this though. Dont think those are light fittings
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16 Sep 2021 13:37 #9
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RAF left in 1971, Army left in 2008
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