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10 Abandoned Fire Control Towers of World War Two
(Image: Kej605; abandoned fire control towers on Rehoboth Beach, Delaware) We’ve explored the world’s forgotten lighthouses and curiously defunct daymarkers in earlier features. But while these...
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Decommissioned Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed in Bulgaria
(All images by Nicola Miller; a retired Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed) This decommissioned Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed would make a fantastic garden ornament, but instead it’s standing out in...
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The Old Tynemouth Fire Control Tower (Now a Private Home)
(Image: via Google Street View; Tynemouth Fire Control Tower behind Grand Parade) Last week we featured a number of abandoned fire control towers (some of them now restored) on America’s eastern...
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10 Abandoned American Air Bases of the Vietnam War
(Uncovering the Abandoned American air bases of the Vietnam War) It was the war that defined a generation. Between 1965 and 1973, US forces engaged in one of the costliest and most controversial...
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Visiting Lincolnshire? Stay at RAF Wainfleet’s Converted Control Tower
(Image: Mat Fascione; converted control tower at the former RAF Wainfleet) It coordinated operations across the UK MOD’s bombing ranges on the Lincolnshire coast. But now the former RAF Wainfleet...
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Photo: A Neglected MiG-21 (Ex-German Air Force)
(Image: Erwin Alexander. Ex-German Air Force MiG-21 fighter) Despite its neglected condition and surface grime, this ex-German Air Force MiG-21 fighter is more colourful than the other old Fishbed at...
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BMEWS: Abandoned Missile Tracking Station in Chaguaramas, Trinidad
(Image: Chris Fitzpatrick. Abandoned Macqueripe missile tracking station in Chaguaramas) During the 1950s, the West became aware of Soviet efforts to develop a network of inter-continental ballistic...
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Tornado ZA371 After Emergency Landing Accident at Newcastle Airport...
(Image: Grahame Robinson; Tornado GR4A ZA371 at Newcastle Airport) Around teatime on August 5, 2008, Panavia Tornado GR4A ZA371 was involved in an incident at Newcastle Airport in North East England....
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Rusting Remains of an Anti-Submarine Net in Scapa Flow
(Image: George Brown; abandoned anti-submarine net in Scapa Flow) In the annals of modern British maritime history, few locations are better known than the great natural harbour of Scapa Flow in...
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Special Tail Fin of Tornado ZA461 Returns to RAF Lossiemouth
(Image: Alan Potts. Tornado ZA461 tail fin returns to RAF Lossiemouth) We’ve periodically covered the ongoing RTP (reduced to produce) process of the UK’s Panavia Tornado GR4 fleet, as time-expired...
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Beacon Hill Battery: Built by Henry VIII, Abandoned During the Cold War
(Image: Gordon Haws. The ruined Beacon Hill Battery in Essex) The ruined Beacon Hill Battery has had a long and turbulent history spanning the reign of King Henry VIII to the Cold War. Also known as...
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Wrecked AH-64 Apache Gunship in the Iraqi Desert
(Image: US Government. Wrecked AH-64 Apache gunship) In 2003 this wrecked AH-64 Apache gunship is understood to have crashed on landing at Tactical Assembly Area SHELL in central Iraq. The formidable...
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Explore Saipan’s Abandoned Pacific Barrier Radar III on Google Street View
(Image: Google Earth. Abandoned Pacific Barrier Radar III aka PACBAR III) Near Pau Pau Beach on Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, a narrow road winds up Mount Petosukura to a...
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Hangar Queens: Mothballed Typhoon ZJ945 & Other Little-Used Eurofighters
(Image: Kevin Mape. Mothballed Eurofighter Typhoon ZJ945 seen in 2011) 2016 saw at least one Tranche 1 Eurofighter Typhoon (ZJ815) reduced to produce and another (ZJ922) leaving RAF Coningsby by road,...
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Defunct Alsask Radar Dome on Canada’s Alberta-Saskatchewan Border
(Image: Google Earth. The defunct RCAF Alsask Radar Dome) On the agricultural landscape of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border in Canada stands an abandoned early warning system, yet another relic of the...
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Abandoned F-14 Tomcats & F-4 Phantom Dumped in Woods (VIDEO)
Last month, when a video was posted to YouTube revealing two abandoned F-14 Tomcats and an F-4 Phantom lying in a woodland clearing, aviation websites clamoured to uncover the whereabouts of the...
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Rare F-111B Interceptor Hulk Dumped in a Mojave Scrapyard
(Image: David Skeggs. The stripped hulk of F-111B 152714 at Mojave Airport in 2008) At first glance it looks like the bare, stripped-out hulk of a General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark, the supersonic...
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RTP: Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA453 (022) Withdrawn From Service
(Image: Paul Lucas; Tornado GR4 ZA453 over Bruntingthorpe, 2015) ZA453 (022) has become the latest Panavia Tornado GR4 to be ‘reduced to produce‘ at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire. The airframe, which...
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Glasgow’s Spitfire LA198 at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum
(Images: Urban Ghosts. Supermarine Spitfire F21 LA198 in Kelvingrove Museum) British aviation fans often describe the Supermarine Spitfire as the most beautiful aircraft to ever grace the skies. And...
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RTP Goldstars Special: Tornado GR4 ZA548 to Leeming for Disposal
(Image: Howard Sinclair. Tornado GR4 ZA548 reduced to produce) Last up it was ZA453 (022), now it’s the turn of Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA548 (040) to meet the breaker. The ‘Goldstars special’ first flew...
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