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Information request on Evanton Airfield
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:55:40 +0100, Luis E. Pacheco wrote
(in message ) : I'm looking for any kind of information about Evanton airfield in Scotland. The field was deactivated on the 70's, and now is a scrap store, I guess. I'm specially intersted about the use of the field as launch site for american spy balloons wich overfly the soviet union in the middle 50's. Any kind of information on the bases's history will be very welcome. From memory, the airfield (first used in the 1920s, apparently) was sold (or returned to) a local landowner in the late 50s (not the 70s). It is now the site of a small industrial estate. No aircraft had been based there for years beforehand - probably since shortly after WW2. It was known as Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Newton and was within sight of the British Royal Navy base at Invergordon. As you say, US personnel were present in the mid-50s (and possibly earlier) and launched balloons but I understood these to be weather balloons. What makes you think they were spy balloons? The final Royal Navy personnel left around 1961. -- My email address is geod (at) dial dot pipex dot com You know what to do. |
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From memory, the airfield (first used in the 1920s, apparently) was
sold (or returned to) a local landowner in the late 50s (not the 70s). It is now the site of a small industrial estate. No aircraft had been based there for years beforehand - probably since shortly after WW2. It was known as Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Newton and was within sight of the British Royal Navy base at Invergordon. As you say, US personnel were present in the mid-50s (and possibly earlier) and launched balloons but I understood these to be weather balloons. What makes you think they were spy balloons? The final Royal Navy personnel left around 1961. Thank you for the information. The "weather balloon" story was a cover up for the real fact: overfly of the Soviet Union using high tech imaging gear attached to them. The project code named "genetrix" was a disaster, because the soviets shoot down a lot of balloons and the only few wich crossed away and reached the Pacific Ocean obtained no much value information. More information is available in the book from Curtis Peebles "The Moby Dick Project: Reconnaissance Balloons Over Russia" and a nice article on the subject you will find in http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v4/v4n1-2/balloons.html Greetings LEP |
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