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    What's here?

    Using Google maps I came across this, it looks like a outline of a airstrip.
    Is it a forgotten strip from the World War 2 days?

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    Just had a look at it. to the west of trustcott?

    If so its really hard to tell. if you squint you can see a rectangular airstrip shape. I'm a pilot so I'm used to spotting little bush strips. but this is very hard to see.

    If it was a strip from WW2 i imagine it would be well and truly gone by now.

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    You seriously just came across that? What were you doing? Scanning the entire top end at 100m zoom just for kicks? You need to get out more I think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T.Middo View Post
    Just had a look at it. to the west of trustcott?

    If so its really hard to tell. if you squint you can see a rectangular airstrip shape. I'm a pilot so I'm used to spotting little bush strips. but this is very hard to see.
    X2. Always on the lookout for forced landing options.

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    Quote Originally Posted by solmanic View Post
    X2. Always on the lookout for forced landing options.
    Haha too right. Unfortunately the aircraft i fly now is a little too big to land on most bush strips haha.

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    Something has been cut in there but what it is could be anyone's guess

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    A whole lot of nothing.

    Yes, those lines do look interesting.

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    I think it may be geological - it extends across the scrub to the water in a SW direction, and if you follow the alignment to the NE it extends into the bay and below the water line.

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    Looks like a strip, what were you doing looking there arthur???


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    better than the rideon

    Quote Originally Posted by solmanic View Post
    You seriously just came across that? What were you doing? Scanning the entire top end at 100m zoom just for kicks? You need to get out more I think.
    I watched a YouTube video clip on a bunch of guys restoring a ww2 bomber ( Kea bird? ) that was sitting in the Arctic, it ended in disaster when something came loose while they were moving it and it burnt to the ground. But that's getting away from this story.

    Some time ago I was scanning the top end looking for the Truscott airstrip and came across a large-ish plane in the scrub near the coast and I was trying to relocate that one.
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