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Compton Abbas to Booker

Compton Abbas airfield.
Compton Abbas airfield.
Compton Abbas airfield.  You can see the runway marked out on the grass, a row of parked aircraft, and just make out the restaurant's outside seating area.
Compton Abbas airfield. You can see the runway marked out on the grass, a row of parked aircraft, and just make out the restaurant's outside seating area.
Coming in to land at Compton Abbas airfield.
Coming in to land at Compton Abbas airfield.
The cafe/restaurant area at Compton Abbas airfield.
The cafe/restaurant area at Compton Abbas airfield.
Aircraft parked on the grass at Compton Abbas airfield.
Aircraft parked on the grass at Compton Abbas airfield.
The Fovant Badges: Regimental badges cut into the chalk hillside near Fovant, Wiltshire during WW1 by soldiers camped nearby.  The Chiselbury Iron Age hillfort is visible at the top of the photo.
The Fovant Badges: Regimental badges cut into the chalk hillside near Fovant, Wiltshire during WW1 by soldiers camped nearby.  The Chiselbury Iron Age hillfort is visible at the top of the photo.
Stonehenge from above.
Stonehenge from above.
Avebury and the Avebury Ring - you can just make out the standing stones on the perimeter of the circular earthwork.
Avebury and the Avebury Ring - you can just make out the standing stones on the perimeter of the circular earthwork.
Silbury Hill.
Silbury Hill.
Some posh houses can be seen from just a couple of thousand feet up.
Some posh houses can be seen from just a couple of thousand feet up.
Uffington Castle (right) and the Uffington Vale White Horse (left).
Uffington Castle and White Horse.
Now on the way home.  Didcot Power Station - much of it has been demolished.
Now on the way home. Didcot Power Station - much of it has been demolished.
Booker Airfield (aka Wycombe Air Park) is the green field just above centre.  The "smoke" rising up from the trees is actually dust from a combine harvester in the field.
Booker Airfield (aka Wycombe Air Park) is the green field just above centre. The 'smoke' rising up from the trees is actually dust from a combine harvester in the field.
Coming in to land on the grass strip at Booker.
Coming in to land on the grass strip at Booker.
Nearly down...
Nearly down...

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