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The Former Fighter Revetments of RAF Harrowbeer, Devon
(All images via Google Street View; former fighter revetments at RAF Harrowbeer) Abandoned wartime airfields are important features of the UK landscape, compelling reminders of the devastating 20th...
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The Abandoned MiG-21 in the Wood
(Image: Sébastien ERNEST – Spirit of Decay; MiG-21 Fishbed) The title ‘Abandoned MiG in the Wood’ pretty much sums it up. Urban explorer Sébastien ERNEST has documented some amazing scenes on his...
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Easy Elsie: The Endangered Wreck of Avro Lancaster Bomber NF920
(Image: Johan Ylitalo (website: JohanYlitano.com); wreckage of Lancaster NF920 ‘Easy Elsie’) The broken wreckage of her wings and fuselage lie where she crash-landed in marshland 72 years ago. On...
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Ashley Walk Bombing Range: Explore the Ruins of a Secret World War Two Test Site
(Image: Mike Searle; giant arrow the abandoned Ashley Walk Bombing Range) The New Forest is one of the most unspoiled natural wildernesses in South East England, one of the country’s most heavily...
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Abandoned American Lookout Post on Llanrhidian Marsh, South Wales
(Image: Richard Law; abandoned US Army watch tower on Llanrhidian Marsh) Like a solitary sentinel guarding the vast saltmarshes north of Landimore, on South Wales’ picturesque Gower Peninsula, the...
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Starfighter Graveyard: Rusting Hulks of F-104 Fighter Jets at Baarlo,...
(Image: Theo van Vliet) Rusting and forlorn, these gutted, empty shells of once-proud Lockheed F-104 Starfighter jets look as though they’re awaiting the scrapheap. But the decommissioned aircraft...
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Colour Photos Show Avro Lancaster Bombers on the Woodford Assembly Line in 1943
(Image: Ministry of Information) These historical photographs reveal the clamour of work inside the A. V. Roe & Company aircraft factory at Woodford, in Cheshire, England, at the height of World...
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Rural Explorers Stumble Across Abandoned Tanks
(Image: FFUrbex Fotografie) To date, we’ve documented some of the world’s most impressive abandoned tanks and armoured fighting vehicle graveyards in a series of in-depth features on Urban Ghosts (you...
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“Crashed” SEPECAT Jaguar XX845 at Predannack
(Image: Ben Salter; decommissioned SEPECAT Jaguar XX845) Amid the stark, windswept beauty of Cornwall’s Lizard Peninsula lies an old wartime airfield which ceased regular operational flying decades...
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Kalixlinjens Museum’s “Crashed” Saab 35 Draken Fighter Jet
(Image: Pennan & Svärdet via Facebook; Kalixlinjens Museum’s “crashed” Saab 35 Draken) It’s one of the most unconventional aircraft wreck photos we’ve ever seen (if indeed such things are ever...
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Is there a Secret Russian Nuclear Base Beneath Mount Yamantau?
(Image: Tsibin Konstantin; Mount Yamantau in the Ural Mountains) Mount Yamantau is a part of the Ural mountain range near Bashkortostan in Russia, a wild and brooding landscape where craggy peaks...
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The RTP’d Remains of Panavia Tornado ZA600
(Image: Peter; the remains of Tornado ZA600 after RTP) Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA600 wore a variety of camouflage schemes throughout its 33 years of service, from the early Cold War green/grey finish to...
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Rare Photo of Unused English Electric Lightning Fuselage at Stone, Staffordshire
(Image: Alan Allen. A spare, unused Lightning fuselage awaits scrapping) Dumped in the undergrowth of a neglected yard in Staffordshire, England, this innocuous chunk of metal may look like any other...
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A Closer Look at the Abandoned Motor Technica Museum’s Rusting Vehicles
(Images: SurfacePics) We’ve covered the abandoned Motor Technica Museum in the German spa town of Bad Oeynhausen before (see here). In this brief post, we wanted to offer a more detailed glimpse at...
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The Battered Hulk of Lightning XG327 at Manston, Kent
(Image: Irish251 – website) With its tail fin severed and wings well and truly clipped, it’s difficult to imagine that this forlorn hulk once helped pave the way for Britain’s most iconic fast jet...
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A Graveyard of Decommissioned Italian Army Tanks & Armoured Personnel Carriers
(All images by Martin Briquet) When French urbex photographer Martin Briquet was returning home from a visit to Italy, he came upon a vast graveyard of decommissioned tanks, where row upon row of...
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Tyneham: Dorset’s Ruined World War Two Ghost Village
(Image: Nick; the abandoned rectory in Tyneham, Dorset) A month before Christmas of 1943, the residents of a tiny village in Dorset, England, received what must have been a very traumatic letter....
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Derelict MiG-21 Hulk Guards an Abandoned Soviet Base in Mongolia
(Image: Eric Lusito – website) Those who are fascinated by abandoned aircraft and Cold War military relics, especially those that endure across the vast expanses of the former Soviet Union, may...
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Abandoned Lockheed TV-2 Jet Trainer at Calhan Airport, CO
(Image: Matt Ried – website: Rocky Lakes Photography) As photographer Matt Ried wrote on Flickr, it’s “not every day you run across a 1950’s jet trainer sitting abandoned at a tiny airport with dirt...
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Decommissioned F-16A (79394) Used for Crash Rescue Training, Arizona
(Image: Airman 1st Class Cheyenne Morigeau) There is no shortage of early model F-16 Fighting Falcons languishing in storage at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona. This defunct F-16A, however, isn’t parked...
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