In the news yesterday details of today’s VE celebrations were announced and mentioned the Red Arrows flypast from an airfield I’d never heard of. Thinking it must be a typo I checked it and soon found that, no this place exists. I wonder where it is? After all we're well aware that if it’s on the internet it must be true.
What time is the Red Arrows flypast on VE Day? standard.co.uk › news › red-arrow-flypast-start-ti... 15 hours ago - The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, or the Red Arrows, is the ... in July 2018 the RAF announced that by 2022 RAF Scrampton would close, ...
.thetimes.co.uk › 22 Jan 2007 - SCRAMPTON The future of the RAF Red Arrows display team is being considered as part of a review of military spending, the Ministry of ...
Scrampton Airshow -
East Midlands RFCA eastmidlandsrfca.co.uk › event › 9 Sep 2017 - SCRAMPTON AIRSHOW. Lincolnshire's new airshow ...
TNA references it. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk › Details of AIR 82/292. Reference: AIR 82/292. Description: Register of baptisms: RAF Scrampton. 1980 Jun 20 - 1995 Sep 17
RAF Scrampton Archives – AirshowStuff airshowstuff.com › tag › raf-scrampton A Royal Air Force engineer was killed Tuesday when a Red Arrow jet crashed at RAF Valley in North Wales. Corporal Jonathan Bayliss was riding in the Hawk ...
MP calls for Red Arrows to be stationed at Cambridgeshire air .cambridge-news.co.uk › ... › Armed Forces 12 Feb 2020 - The world-famous Red Arrows are currently based in RAF Scrampton, but this site it set to close. Promoted Stories. RAF Wittering is a Royal Air ...
dayoutwiththekids.co.uk › ... › Lincoln This is a rare opportunity for kids to learn the history of RAF Scrampton, since it was established in the 1930s, through World War II and the Cold War.
euroweeklynews.com 617 Squadron left RAF Scrampton –
A sad history of military air crashes – Telegraph telegraph.co.uk › news › uknews › defence 3 Jul 2012 - The crash of two RAF tornados today prompted a major air and sea rescue ... was on the runway at RAF Scrampton, Lincolnshire, in November.
ww.itv.com › news › calendar › topic › The Red Arrows, based at RAF Scrampton in Lincolnshire
Even EH knows of its existence - it must be true. Historicengland.org.uk › list-entry 12 Apr 2019 - …it was also the operational storage base for nearby RAF Scrampton where there was insufficient space to establish a storage facility there.
There are many more examples - deplorable.
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More of a problem with copy and paste I suspect. So, on the basis that the internet is correct shall we change the title of that famous airfields topic, otherwise those poor Googlers won't find any information on that famous airfield on here and think we are all numpties for not having it?
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
I wonder how many other famous airfields have been mistyped over the years? I bet some could be made more humorous by the addition of an extra letter. Should we include Scrampton as an alternative name?
P.S. Just to be clear, in case any casual readers are mislead, that map was doctored.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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