War Horse

[pepperpot]

Found out this week the trenches were constructed on the old Wisley aerodrome (J10, M25), wartime aerodrome and later used for delopment. When i was working for Decca RadaR, we were told it was also used for covert operations. anyone confirm this?
Exmoor was also used in the film.
graham

[deviouswolf]

Found out this week the trenches were constructed on the old Wisley aerodrome (J10, M25), wartime aerodrome and later used for delopment. When i was working for Decca RadaR, we were told it was also used for covert operations. anyone confirm this?
Exmoor was also used in the film.
graham

Hope this helps

http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/20794 ... y_airfield

Wisley Airfield, off the Portsmouth Road and only a few miles south of Brooklands at Weybridge, had been acquired by Vickers Armstrong Limited in 1943 when they needed a bigger runway than Brooklands could offer. The Wisley site was accidentally found by 'Mutt' Summers in making a forced landing on a test flight from Brooklands and, when surveyed, the field was reckoned capable of providing a runway of about 2,300 yards. It was used extensively during the latter part of the Second World War and increasingly after the war, when planes made at Brooklands were transported by road for final assembly at Wisley prior to test flying.

After the war, the longer runway facilities were used more and more as the size of the aircraft being designed grew and by 1952, a hard runway was laid. Buildings in which to erect and maintain aircraft were put up and Wisley became the main flight-testing centre for Weybridge-built aircraft, including the Viking, Viscount, Valiant, Vanguard, BAC 111 and the VC 10. However, being situated near to the expanding Heathrow, it eventually became no longer practical to operate as a flight-testing airfield and so, in 1973, the British Aircraft Corporation closed Wisley. All the buildings have gone but the runway and VOR beacon still remain.

http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/ ... HCOL_Z/501