Felt compelled to post here. Coming from a small area of Leicestershire I'm feeling a small road trip coming on to go and check out the places
listed.
All I know of military movement is the vast amount of military aircraft we get hanging around. I've heard about them using the old pitbanks as
'bombing' ranges, but living quiet close I've never experienced anything, the only thing that makes the houses shake around here are the explosives
at the quarry pits. Don't know exactly where they're coming from, guess I can find out more.
Usually these aircraft are plain black, just the other week I was out and about standing in a carpark in a small village on high ground, and the
helicopter seemed to just chill out above the field next to the car park for over half an hour. No clue what they were doing, they started to circle
for a while before darting off.
Just to also add, I do a lot of work with OS and Aerial Mapping, along with historical mapping taken from Ordinance Survey, Landmark and Getmapping
(we hold 'rights' to OS & Landmark but not Aerial data from getmapping) so I'll have to check out some of these areas on the data I have.
[edit on 13/8/10 by stefplz]


