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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by the Imperial War Museum to store and display historic aircraft. 63 Manors and Other Estates. Theodred, bishop of … to research into synthetic materials and later to making aircraft glues. 'Aerolite' cement, manufactured at Duxford from 1939, was much used in aircraft during the Second World War, when the factory had …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the late 1920s the south part was used as an airfield by aircraft taking part in army exercises on Salisbury Plain. It … returned to the army. In the later 20th century the Royal Aircraft Establishment had offices on Knighton down and there …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The most obvious result is the noise of low-flying aircraft, but the airfield has also brought employment for …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… several miles round about. 5 The noise of low-flying aircraft has become an inescapable feature of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… War was the dispatch of most outward-bound, non-combatant aircraft from Britain. In 1942 an Air Dispatch and Reception … parish. 201 At about the same date some 400 flights, 2,000 aircraft movements, 8,00010,000 passengers, and 1 million lb. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a part of the park had been sold to the Admiralty for its aircraft base at Culham; Lock Cottage had fallen down; and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1937. It was used mainly to train pilots and store aircraft. In the Second World War it was occasionally … buildings were erected in 1942 and 1956. The storing of aircraft ceased in 1959: flying and navigation training …
A History of the County of Oxford
… some cottages were destroyed in 1945 when an American aircraft crashed in the village. Like so many other …
A History of the County of Essex
… from 1828 to c. 1870. Remains of it were used by an anti-aircraft battery from 1914 to 1918, and survived until the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and Amesbury-Warminster roads to commemorate a fatal aircraft accident. 46 Manors and other estates. What became …