At another blog, I have been asked the following questions by ‘MH’:
Tony, I have no wish to talk about global warming here, but I would appreciate two things:
1. Can you substantiate how busy the airfield was before? How many flights a day and roughly how big the planes were? Obviously no-one cares about what things were like in the war, but how things were over the 10 or 20 years before it closed.
2. Can you tell what restrictions have been imposed (either through Planning Regulations or as part of the lease) on either the number, size or type of planes that can use the airfield now … or if there are night restrictions?
In the six years between 1998 and 2004, when QinetiQ ceased to operate from Llanbedr Airfield, there were 53,000 aerodrome and 14,000 radar movements. Continue reading »
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