Upper Heyford is a new car dump

[Fantic SuperT]

This is where unsold new cars are going. I lost count at 16,983 and that was just the silver ones.


As found at: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=51.93...

[BigLepton]

You do know most of those satellite images are four or five years old don't you?

[Fantic SuperT]

So what's it look like now?

[FourWheelDrift]

Same, only more silver ones.

[DAVEVO9]

I was up there a few weeks ago picking up some hired tractor units and that runway was empty!

Old pic that is.

[The Black Flash]

FourWheelDrift said:

Same, only more silver ones.

[Eric Mc]

No F-111s anymore then.

[Nimbus]

Fantic SuperT said:

So what's it look like now?

very similar.... and has been like that more or less since it closed as an operational base..

Shame really, I used to love gliding past Upper Heyford, going round their extended airspace, and watching the F111s zoom underneath

Good fun flying competitions out of Bicester too, and watching their activities while you waited for the startline to open

You can also see the same thing at Chipping Warden, to some extent Bruntingthorpe, and probably most large, 'disused' airfields up and down the country.

[chunkymonkey71]

Thats nice.

Cambuslang is just a dump.

[Mark Benson]

Best let Motorsport Events know, they've been holding Academy Days there for the last few years - can't remember seeing any cars on that runway last time I was there though......

Can I just confirm this - you counted nearly 17,000 cars? Have you nothing better to do?

[Fantic SuperT]

Mark Benson said:

Can I just confirm this - you counted nearly 17,000 cars? Have you nothing better to do?

Wait a minute, I thought The Pie & Piston was an OCD self-indulgence forum. Don't tell me people submit 10,000 plus entries on here if they've got something better to do!

[Ron Burgundy]

Theres 106 DHL vans

[Fantic SuperT]

Ron Burgundy said:

Theres 106 DHL vans

Looks like 103 of them are white.

[tuffer]

Sat at the end of that runway a few times manning a Rapier kit, damn those F-111's were noisy.

[Ron Burgundy]

the most amount of red cars in one row is 18

[Fantic SuperT]

Ron Burgundy said:

the most amount of red cars in one row is 18

Which are you calling row one? I thought there were 47, but that's probably row 108 from your perspective.

[J-Skid]

There used to be a car dump next to the A1 at Wyboston lakes for years. If you look on GE you can still see the outline of the cars left.

Apparently there were still unregistered Sierras and Granada Scorpios there up until 2001. See below:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

Edited to add linky

Edited by J-Skid on Wednesday 26th November 16:07

[Ron Burgundy]

Fantic SuperT said:

Ron Burgundy said:

the most amount of red cars in one row is 18

Which are you calling row one? I thought there were 47, but that's probably row 108 from your perspective.

in a row, i.e together without a gap, so ill say that now

[PH_Scooby]

I used to work there. QEK

[PH_Scooby]

Nimbus said:

You can also see the same thing at Chipping Warden

I,ve worked there too. Axial

Edited by PH_Scooby on Wednesday 26th November 18:38