Llanbedr

[Dyffryn Air Fan]

Llanbedr petition

Hi again everyone, would really appreciate if everyone could sign and support the petition to get Llanbedr back to life, if we can get the recycling facility there I am sure we can then get the airfield back to full use. Please share this with your friends and like minded people and help us get as many signatures as we can. The target on there is about 2.5 k but if we can get a lot more it will send a strong message that the airfield should be reopened.

Cheers

DA

[ianbache]

Llanbedr petition

Hi again everyone, would really appreciate if everyone could sign and support the petition to get Llanbedr back to life, if we can get the recycling facility there I am sure we can then get the airfield back to full use. Please share this with your friends and like minded people and help us get as many signatures as we can. The target on there is about 2.5 k but if we can get a lot more it will send a strong message that the airfield should be reopened.

Cheers

DA

Signed up , perhaps this petition may take the hoods off the MPs and the SS heads and let the local people have what they really want, JOBS, stop the red tape and get the site open and working
Regards Ian

[plane spotter]

Just signed up too, fingers crossed our combined efforts may help.

Still trying to locate my prints from years back. They may be at my mums from before I got married. I did stumble across this one though. After my fascination and obsession with Meteor drones it prompted me to remodel an old Matchbox kit to closely resemble WH453. This is from 1989. Still have the model in an old shoe box!

meteoru16.jpg

Ash

[ianbache]

Just signed up too, fingers crossed our combined efforts may help.

Still trying to locate my prints from years back. They may be at my mums from before I got married. I did stumble across this one though. After my fascination and obsession with Meteor drones it prompted me to remodel an old Matchbox kit to closely resemble WH453. This is from 1989. Still have the model in an old shoe box!

meteoru16.jpg

Ash

Hi Ash
I m sure WH 453 now resides at BCWM Bentwaters cold war museum, it was parked outside next to the Bellman Hangar at Llanbedr for many years, WK 800 was the last Drone at Llanbedr flying which flew to Boscombe Down on the last day of operations at Llanbedr in october 2004 with the 2 Alpha Jets as T-Bird 14 combine
Regards Ian

[Bumz_Rush]

I understand that there has been activity.

The test flying of the unmanned passenger aircraft.


I also spent holidays at a / the caravan site at Talibont Halt.
bumz

[ianbache]

I understand that there has been activity.

The test flying of the unmanned passenger aircraft.


I also spent holidays at a / the caravan site at Talibont Halt.
bumz

Hi Bumz_Rush
The only activity off late have been Microlights and a few private light aircraft that have landed, other than that its low overshoots from C130s and MC130s ,
The airfield have been granted a licence to test and evaluate UAVs, but at the moment havent been granted a licence to scrap passenger jets
Regards Ian

[PETERTHEEATER]

The test flying of the unmanned passenger aircraft.

Wot? No pilot? I've heard of Easy Jet but this is ridiculous

[mawganmad]

Call me cynical, but I can't see the Welsh Government supporting this, they are supporting the same sort of operation at st Athan, and have to be seen as trying to make that work, I also think they will bow to the conservation arguments by the SS and others.
Hopefully I'm wrong.

[Carnaby]

The test flying of the unmanned passenger aircraft.
Wot? No pilot? I've heard of Easy Jet but this is ridiculous

I remember a TV programme a while ago stating that 747s didn't need a pilot until it had come to rest at the end of the runway! However a TV prog last week on overhauling a 747 stated that there are three things the autoland cannot do.

IIRC:
1) Lower the flaps
2) Lower the undercarriage
3) Apply the brakes

[ColinA]

Best sights there for me,
Watching the Jindvic land from the dunes 300yds away (not realising that they were partial to crashing there!)
Watching the Meteor and Canberra.
Watching a flight of F15E Eagles do a low pass (the earth moved that day those things are loud.)
Watching the Hawks with bird strikes and "stuck" weapons doing low pass for visual.


Even if you could fly the aircraft in as anyone who knows the area will confirm
The road from Barmouth is narrow and busy, not suitable for many big lorries.
The road from the village to the airfield is even smaller with a very restricted turn which jams caravans, and in the sunner period is blocked by Shell Island traffic.
The harbour is shallow and drys at low tide so barges are out of the question, plus outside the entrance is a 7 mile reef "Sarn Badrig"