MYSTERY AIRFIELD - Was it really?

Yes Huby is still around though he doesn't use email now. You'd be able to contact him via the NASAM, here:
www.aviationmuseum.net/

Mike wrote:

138 Sqn flew Lysanders from RAF Newmarket Heath but it didn't have hard runways, wasn't secret and is located on chalk heathland rather than a marsh.

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On a note was there a airfield that was used by ose in Gloustershire. aera. that smuggleled agents into france. by Lysanders.that I heard from a Local radio programe in 2001.
terry

maverik61 wrote:

Mike wrote:

138 Sqn flew Lysanders from RAF Newmarket Heath but it didn't have hard runways, wasn't secret and is located on chalk heathland rather than a marsh.

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On a note was there a airfield that was used by ose in Gloustershire. aera. that smuggleled agents into france. by Lysanders.that I heard from a Local radio programe in 2001.
terry

cheers .
terry

A possible candidate is Bradwell Bay. Norfolk and Suffolk would seem to be a bit too far north for such operations.

Bradwell bay I wouldnt have considered due to the fact that it sticks out like a sore thumb right on the coast.
I went to school with a lad in the 1960s who swore blind that his aunts house was next to a 'secret' RAF airfield. This one didnt feature on any maps either according to him. Turned out it was East Wretham Could this mystery airfield be an early form of 'urban myth' ..or in this case rural myth?

REF wrote:

Yes Huby is still around though he doesn't use email now. You'd be able to contact him via the NASAM, here:
www.aviationmuseum.net/

I have managed to make e-mail contact with a colleague of Huby's and my question will be passed to him for a response.

maverik61 wrote:

maverik61 wrote:

Mike wrote:

138 Sqn flew Lysanders from RAF Newmarket Heath but it didn't have hard runways, wasn't secret and is located on chalk heathland rather than a marsh.

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On a note was there a airfield that was used by ose in Gloustershire. aera. that smuggleled agents into france. by Lysanders.that I heard from a Local radio programe in 2001.
terry

cheers .
terry

Hello;
this story was on tv as well it says a small farmers field was used in gloustershire.for spy missions lysanders were used as a pilot remembers dropin a agent off in france and was double crossed as german army waited for him and agents they opened fire wounded him.in face he just was luckly he took off in time as they fired.
the farmers field had a haystack hanger and get this a windsock made out of potato bag open.
it was blowin you wouldnt thought it was a airstrip.a farmers field.
they were thinkin of pullin it down hanger sorts.but farmer had better intentions and why not.
but location has bein lost.i did tape it and tryin to find it right now but only small news item bbc.2001 or 2002
terry

Lysanders flying from Gloucestershire to France - not feasible unless they used Tangmere en route. Sounds like another myth seized upon by the local media.

I just got a reply, attributed to Huby Fairhead, from an intermediary:

The airfield in question refers to Heigham Holmes.
There were no concrete runways and there was a watch office rather than a control tower. Use by S.O.E. confirmed.
Site now owned possibly by English Nature and is only open one day a year.
Hope this answers your question.

OK Posters now start ripping into Heigham Holmes and let's see what you know.

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