Thought you maybe interested in these pictures of Kenley Aerodrome WW1 WW2 Memorial http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowermonkey/3170008989/in/pool-royalflyingcorps http://www.flickr.com/photos/flowermonkey/3170006483/in/pool-royalflyingcorps Annie
Annie I know Kenley well; I belong to a gliding club there (gliding is the only activity allowed there now). I don't have the time or the money to go very often, so I haven't been solo, but it gets me into the air a few times a year, in a more seat- of- the- pants fashion than our annual holiday to Spain. Some of the WW2 three-sided blast shelters for parked dispersed aircraft are still there, and there are some depressions in the grass just off the runway, which I am told are bomb craters from the war. The memorial in one of your links is very familiar. Once, we were using the short runway because the wind was across the main one; the instructor had to take back control when yours truly looked like overshooting, and when we finally got down the memorial was in front of us and coming up rather fast! There is a new housing estate close by, where all the roads are named after WW2 pilots based at Kenley who died, the road name signs having brief details - I just tried to upload a photo of one of these, but the attachment system is throwing a wobbly at the moment. In WW1, Kenley was 7 Aircraft Acceptance Depot. Adrian
