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.
And of course a famous one on Orkney that would be even more famous if a letter was dropped!
Oh yes, SkeaBRA, - to sound of schoolboy sniggering. Isbister is not remotely funny, although I have a feeling it was called something else, now what was it....
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
I remember when The Dambusters remake was high on discussions elsewhere.
It was suspected that it would called "The Damn Busters",the operation would be launched from somewhere in "Scampingtonshire",
there would be a very large number of Americans and a certain black Labrador would have to have a far more PC name.
I remember being in Scotland when, for my birthday, the publican sang Forres a jolly good fellow at a particularly boisterous occasion. I was pleased to return to Oxfordshire where things were a lot more Thame and, just a few days later, I Feltwell again on a Norfolk weekend...
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. Benjamin Disraeli.
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