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Spotting at Wyton |
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east of Huntingdon and close the village of St. Ives in
Cambridgeshire, RAF Wyton was once home to the RAF elint
operations flying Nimrods and Canberra's, the latter in the
photo reconnaissance role. Yet
another former V bomber base, Wyton is now host to more sedate
aircraft in the form of Grob Tutors belonging to Cambridge UAS
and No. 5 AEF, types that certainly don't make use of all the
airfield made available to them |
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RAF Wyton dates to
the First World War, where from 1916 on the present site men of
the Royal Flying Corps trained. The present airfield dates from
1935, when during the expansion of the RAF, a number of modern
airfields were built to the standards of the period
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On a typical day at
Wyton in these period it was very normal to see more than your share of Canberra's. In this period the following squadrons
where based at Wyton :
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On of these day's was
17-07-1986 it started as a normal day at Wyton. With all the different
Canberra squadrons doing a good bit of flying. All this changed
when the a Nimrod R1 came down the taxi track. It was not oncoming
to see a Nimrod R1, Because they where based here. But this day it
was possible to have all tree of them in one shot. A site not many
times repeated
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