Hi all
Here is my introduction to this forum and website. My name is Stephen Tipler i am 50 years old and currently serving as a crew manager at RAF Mildenhall fire dept having previoulsy served at RAF Manston in Kent, i moved to North Norfolk in 1995 from Ramsgate my home town. I am interested in WW1 (Western Front) and WW2 airfields in this region. I only discovered this website the other night and found it so fascinating that i signed up and hope to find out more information on this subject and exchange information with other like minded people. I don`t know who lives near me but it would be great to meet up with other people and go out and to the various airfields. I have only just recently become a member of the Friends of Thorpe Abbotts and hope to get involved down there.
Hi Chris
Thank you for the welcome, at the moment i am travelling around the various airfields in my area (Little Snoring, Langham, Foulsham etc) just to see what is left and taking a few pics for my own interest. Then i found this website, and so i may be able to send in some pics and hopefully contribute to the archive and find out what some of the existing buildings are. Also i hope in the end to meet some other like minded people in this area and go out as a group.
I knew when I saw your username that you must be a Kentish man... Or is it a man of Kent?
I seem to remember being told that there is an important difference but I can never remember what it is!
If you ever want to look at Lincolnshire Airfields PM me and i will arrange a meet up with you and show you around.
Welcome to the forum.
You may find also it very beneficial to join the Airfield research Group. We provide 4 magazines a year called the Airfield Review which i think you will find interesting.
The cost is £25 yearly and we also do trips to either current Raf stations or museums. We also have an archive.
Thank you for another warm welcome, tis true what you say but one thing i am a `Man of Kent` that means i was born south of the river Medway a `Kentish Man` twas born to the north. I hope helps this helps you out !!
Thank you for another warm welcome, tis true what you say but one thing i am a `Man of Kent` that means i was born south of the river Medway a `Kentish Man` twas born to the north. I hope helps this helps you out !!
Steve
That's the one, thanks for the reminder I will try to remember it this time!
Thank you for the welcome and offer for the trip to Lincs i will take you up on that in the summer (if it ever comes), i have done a bit of backfill (overtime) at both Waddington and Coninsby with my job so i am a bit familiar with the area. RE the ARG its payday next week so i will join up in due course i think it will be very interesting for me, looking forward to getting involved.
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