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Oh I miss my time in the RAF

How did you find it, we've booked it and read reviews saying it's awful, I'm not bothered about the food as I would never eat at my hotel in Greece as the local food is far superior

Well I visited yesterday but my memory from the Summer of 1979 was a little rusty. I don’t remember much about my previous journey to Binbrook or the experience . I do remember the Airman that made me so welcome as a fresh faced student aviator from an auspicious UAS. I spent 10 years in service before spending 30 in civilian service. Ian Howe was unforgettable and if I remember correctly Burners Price double barrel but my old memory might be wrong! Nearly forgot I did fly in the T5 with LTF as a pax.

I was lucky to visit the site late 1990's as they started ripping up the runway. The Q shed was still in one piece and you could see through the windows into the crew room, no broken windows or break in, fridge, cups chairs etc. A few yards away the control room for the airfield lighting not stripped of copper, dials switches etc. One of the hangers was unoccupied by private business and still had battery chargers, batteries, tools and other stuff on benches yet the nearby officers mess was stripped of rooftiles, interior fittings, even the lead weights in the sash windows. Bizzare to say the least on the same site. Selected vandals and thieves perhaps.

This could have been Humberside airport instead of Kirmington air base becoming so after the RAF vacated the site and Grimsby Borough Council were approached by the Government at the time to allow this to happen. But as usual and a trend that continues to the present day the short sited councillors voted for this not to happen as they didn’t want it in their backyard so that great opportunity was lost for ever to a growing population with an airport which would have attracted even more industry to the town that time has forgot.

Ahhhh, Merlin’s four off.

As stationed there 1984 - 85. MTD.

Wow. I was gobsmacked to see this having spent a fortnight flying there as a student in the 1980s. Time flies by.

Paid a visit this year it’s a right tip now should have had a decent museum and kept the runways for taxi runs apparently according to someone they were taken up by greedy farmers, could also have had some form of racing to raise funds for museum 🥺

My sister was born there

What a great film enhanced by the music. Nostalgia overload. After it closed the airfield was utilised for stage rallies in which I participated in the mid '90s. Miles of quality tarmac and grass tracks. At the time it couldn't be beaten as a venue. Sadly all gone.

Two wonderful and exiting years playing with Lightning’s. I got paid for it too!!

Got my HGV on here doing reverse manoeuvres

Happy days Richard, thank you for your film, 👌🏻👌🏻

thats such a nice location

I was there in 1978 they even had a swimming pool we had some great nights in the naffi and at the bottom of the hill there was a farm house were we had some parties and when the americans visited we had a ball mr meanders was are mess manager god bless binbrookx

Great film , I am in the photograph of the Lightning Engineering Support Flight , toward the end , sitting on the wing , second from left !! Happy Days !!

getting on for 60 years ago when I first appeared at binbrook......had a rented room in the village and worked on camp...bliss......thanks for the memories.....h6....ukvet

wiped from history by farmer Giles and his massey ferguson.

Great footage Richard, Was based there in the mid/late 70s -could see the tiny window in the 5 Sqn hangar that we peered out of on to the flight line for a view of of those fantastic, dripping, Lightnings -it was a bit more active then -just a bit!

i drove up from chigwell in essex to the last lightning display fantastic day

Great Vid

The only time I have ever driven a car was on that runway, about 25 years ago. My friend, whose car it was, has since died. All things considered, it was lucky that we didn't both die in that car, all those years ago. Good memories, although I don't think he enjoyed the experience much - telling me afterwards that I would never be allowed to drive that car again! And I never did.

sad......how they end up....just ghosts now

My very best and only real friend K9 flew from here with 11 Sqn. He was married locally and I was honoured to be invited to the wedding, and to attend his wedding reception afterwards in the Officers' Mess. I am still friends with him and his family. He is a really a great friend, and always will be. He loved flying the Lightning!

I just looked on Google Earth and there's almost no trace of the runways now, it's all gone back to agriculture. I suppose it makes a change from storing thousands of unsold cars like many other former airfields.

On working trips to Lincolnshire I'd occasionally stop the car and munch my sandwiches at the North West end of the runway just behind where the Lightning hulks were stored in the open and watch the aircraft coming and going. They were already long in the tooth by 1983, but always impressive machines. I'd seen my first at Teeside Airport Air Show in 1968. That is a very emotive piece of film.

Thank you 🇨🇦

Personally....I believe it's sacrilege to just abandon these installations....why....because as a nation we defended ourselves from the likes of these places...they are a stark reminder of what was sacrificed....good God we're going to ratshit in a hurry in this country...

The poppies at the end were very moving. So many old airfields still being lost to housing.....they need preserving......but successive governments try to whitewash our history.

I live in Dragonby and I have never seen this site. Where is it?

its heart breaking watching this i live not far from binbrook wenr to many air show there its a bloody crime to destroy such a great base am gutted

Great video mate

My dad was based here in the 70’s. He said it was very nostalgic to watch. Especially the pictures at the end

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Nothing much left

It's sad .I was born there What happened to the RAF staff housing

Great video and excellent music and sound of aircraft. Good job!

Looking even worse in 2019. ua-cam.com/video/dzWo1hT0Yjg/v-deo.html

Great to see this, my uncle, deceased, flew with the Royal Canadian Air Force from here and met my auntie. The runway was where my dad took me as a sixteen year old to drive his car for the first time. Thank you for posting.

Great times spent at the crash gates seeing the fantastic birds coming and going....and a fantastic community at the base and village

Such smooth operating. Great to see it from above. Thanks.

This makes me sad. Had so many childhood memories there

This land was fought for by brave men and women. And today it is given away by a weak government. To panda to perverts and paedophiles .

I wonder what happened to the poor sea lions ? I know they were left there for ages after.

Fantastic video. Really well made and nice soundtrack.

I want to buy it

I am an ex RAF airframe fitter and now a private pilot. My favourite aircraft was the Lightning and try as I might I never managed to get posted to Binbrook to work on the best fighter ever! I was FURIOUS when I found out Binbrook has been systematically destroyed to make way for a few empty fields that will never be used and yet ANOTHER industrial estate. This reminds of another airfield I used to fly into regularly thats now been ERASED from the face of the earth - RAF Greenham Common! This sort of behaviour is so direspectful to those who lost their lives or served at these bases WHY is the MOD breaking up so many runways instead of just closing the camp! I was actually booked in to fly to South Africa to fly in one of the last airworthy Lightning T6's. Sadly it developed a fuel leak during an air display and caught fire. The brave pilot deliberately flew the aircraft away from population and crashed it - no ejection seat was fitted. He was lost along with this valuable aircraft. I planned to return to Swinderby one last time, I drove there and on arrival found that TOO was gone. I am also angry they destroyed an historic control tower - WHY, WHY WHY????? That could have made a wonderful centrepoint for a museum/ memorial. At the rate MOD is cutting back the armed forces this country will be defencelsss in 10 years! I'm looking for a Hunter to buy and restore to fly if I can find one, another superb aircraft and cheaper to run than a Lightning! Thank you for the superb video, makes my face leak remembering what we once had there. :....( Superb drone flying I'm getting myself a Mavik Air 3:28 the old QRA sheds!

I lived in Grimsby for over 12 years, and went to the last public Air Day, and marvelled at the last Diamond 9 formation given by Lightnings - the weather was damp and low overcast - but the pilots' skill kept the formation tight and neat, and below the clouds.

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