I was messing about on Google Earth last night when I spotted something odd.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=st+mawgan&sll=50.477336,-4.999294&sspn=0.017151,0.034461&ie=UTF8&ll=50.478496,-4.999423&spn=0.010132,0.020084&t=k&z=16&om=1
In either Google Earth or use http://maps.google.co.uk/maps (and switch the view to 'Satellite') - search for St Mawgan - it will find a few options - you want the 'International Airport' one.
When you get there - scroll out a bit - you will see another airfield a few miles directly above the first one.
You'll see straight away that some odd is going on there.
This thing is full of those huge round fields that cover the landscape of the US. The US ones are supposed to be crop fields.
Okay then - if the UK ones are crops too - how come one of them is across an old runway?
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=st+mawgan&sll=50.477336,-4.999294&sspn=0.017151,0.034461&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=50.476124,-4.999766&spn=0.001267,0.002511&z=19
Who'd grow crops in a field when 25/30% of it is over concrete and when they could easily put the field elsewhere where there is room?
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=st+mawgan&sll=50.477336,-4.999294&sspn=0.017151,0.034461&ie=UTF8&ll=50.478496,-4.999423&spn=0.010132,0.020084&t=k&z=16&om=1
In either Google Earth or use http://maps.google.co.uk/maps (and switch the view to 'Satellite') - search for St Mawgan - it will find a few options - you want the 'International Airport' one.
When you get there - scroll out a bit - you will see another airfield a few miles directly above the first one.
You'll see straight away that some odd is going on there.
This thing is full of those huge round fields that cover the landscape of the US. The US ones are supposed to be crop fields.
Okay then - if the UK ones are crops too - how come one of them is across an old runway?
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=st+mawgan&sll=50.477336,-4.999294&sspn=0.017151,0.034461&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=50.476124,-4.999766&spn=0.001267,0.002511&z=19
Who'd grow crops in a field when 25/30% of it is over concrete and when they could easily put the field elsewhere where there is room?