[jhb] Re: Where Is It
- From: "bones" <bones@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:42:49 -0000
Just to add that any airfield with an asterisk after the name has only been
plotted to Degrees and Minutes (approx +/-1nm) but the rest are accurate to
full DMS data. Some older airfields still elude positive placement,
especially the grass strips.
bones
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mike Lucas
Sent: 23 January 2008 22:07
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: Where Is It
Bones
What a brilliant combination! Many thanks for this.
Mike L
bones wrote:
> If you grab the KML file from my web pages it overlays all known
> airfields onto GE. I've done a similar file for navaids and
> intersections.
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> It's on
> http://www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/Kinetic/Kinetic_Utilities.htm -
> about halfway down the page.
>
> bones
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Mike Brook
> Sent: 23 January 2008 18:11
> To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jhb] Re: Where Is It
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> Definitely Honiley (ex-WWII RAF). Was used by 605 Squadron (night
> fighters) 1941 onwards. Aprox 4DME on the approach to 33. Was owned
> by the
> (non-defunct) Lucas organization and was used for many years by Girling as
a
> vehicle/brake test track. No idea of its present ownership/usage tho' it
> could be TRW Automotive Ltd. As bones has said, the Honiley VOR is
situated
> within the old airfield boundary. See
> http://www.controltowers.co.uk/H-K/Honiley.htm
>
> M.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of bones
> Sent: 23 January 2008 16:59
> To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jhb] Re: Where Is It
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> If you see it on GE then you'll find a VOR on the airfield. <g>
>
> bones
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Gerry Winskill
> Sent: 23 January 2008 16:54
> To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jhb] Re: Where Is It
>
>
> Probably Honiley, because a check on the FSX GPS showed the Honiley
> intersection to be about there. Off for a look at Google Earth. I'd
> not heard of a Honiley field before. Was it wartime, though it isn't
> the usual WWII style of layout?
>
> Gerry Winskill
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