Airfield Lighting - Part 2

[Carnaby]

The things people abandon at the roadside these days, it's just terrible...

.. and in these times of high prices for scrap iron .

[P Bellamy]

I don't think it was the scrap metal fairies that dropped it, more likely someone found it while walking on the airfield and got fed up carrying the heavy thing.

[Brothmark]

Seen at RAF Station Chipping Ongar (also known as Willingale)

[kebecker]

noticed this on a recent trip to North Witham; intersection of the main 20/02 and 12/30 runways, it looks like there was a false start in digging the original holes in the runway for these lights as there are patches within feet of the installed equipment,

[P Bellamy]

Highlighted version of the Outer Circle and Approach Funnel lighting installation at Molesworth "as fitted" from a drawing by British Insulated Cables Ltd. under Contract No. A415319/42C/44(C):



PB

[kebecker]

a substantial find I would say, the two big questions, any more and is there any evidence on the ground today?

[P Bellamy]

To answer the first question:

Highlighted version of Molesworth's AFL MkII installation from a drawing by Malcolm & Allen (London) Ltd. dated September 1943:



As for the second question, there is no trace on the "1945" Google Earth coverage, and even less now.

[P Bellamy]

Molesworth's Contact Lighting installation from a drawing by Malcolm & Allen (London) Ltd. dated September 1943:

[Carnaby]

Molesworth's Contact Lighting installation ...

Very interesting - The western crossbar is well short of the threshold. (Eastern end appears normal).

[P Bellamy]

Approach floodlighting only at the eastern end too.