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- This week folks we are heading to RAF Greenham Common an airfield built in ww2 and rebuilt and extended in the cold war.
We are joined with Ben whos going to show us around and go through the history and uncover some amazing history and events.
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When the Americans moved out in 92, security was lax, I was 11 and rode a bmx with my best mate Nod, we'd ride around until we found a break in the fence and sneak into the base, get into any building we could. We got into the air vents on the side on the silos and went deep underground armed with nothing but 10 embassy and a couple of clippers, we found our way into these quiet, dark, control rooms at the end of long tunnels with 18" thick steel doors, it was awesome and scary. We got into Venture West too, and found a door with the presidential seal on it, like a conference room with a rolling blackboard. The hallway leading to it had a suspended floor, we lifted a section and there was a 20 foot drop to water, really weird. We had so much fun. He left us due to unrelated health issues. RIP my mate Nod.
Chris loves giving that Banana Engine a good caning. Love the old smiley Transit!
My wife's Grandad was one of the people in charge of the reconstruction of the runway in the 50's when the American's took over.
The airfield was completed in 1942 and handed to the US in 1943, not the 50s.
But reconstructing the runway for modern heavy US bombers must have been an incredible project!
When the base was decomisoned before they dug up the runway there was a helicopter radiation survay that took several weeks. Maybe you should do a freedom off information request.
Down near the rubbish dump area where old safes,beds,US army food packets, various other things are dumped the water is a very interesting colour indeed.
ISLE OF WIGHT ARCHIVE this is the same in many of the New Forest area airfields. The waste was dumped near boggy areas/streams and today they run very orange with iron.
But, don't forget that if the water flows through a culvert, there may be a breakdown of the metal inside, or the iron bar reinforcements. Leading to deposits in the water.
An old colleague worked for BT installing the communications in to Gamma and others, and he told me the BT ducts ran from outside the fence line directly inward. The grids had a false floor that made them look like concrete had been filled, but could be lifted with a modest lift. Anyway he walked from outside the fence line to Gamma one day and was met by rather excited US Airforce Security wanting to take shots at him.
Really enjoying these greenham common episodes thanks guys really interesting! X
Typically orange staned streams means that it's coming into contact with iron.
I think that brick ww2 pillbox looking thing might be an ammo/explosives storage - low profile and raised bank around it limit the blast damage to surrounding people/stuff if it were to go off.
Top banana as usual 😃. Tho be careful you may have some jobsworth reporting Ian for not wearing a seatbelt.
Get your belt on folk, you'll ruin the footage coming headlong through the windscreen.
I was stationed there in 1982 and got lymphoma 30 years later.
Great vid guys . Just for information the Orange ROC geiger is designed to only detect dangerous high levels of radiation in the measurement of Centi Grays . Thus meaning the radiation levels of post atomic strike. It's a good job and relief to see it remaining at 0.0 throughout the video. Keep up the good work.
Stunning historical information guys
Great and "fun" video at the water with the moment with the spade/multitool 😂i have done the same with spade like that 😂keep up the good work folks 😃👍✌
Wow just wow.
Good one boys yeah that water has some sort of metals in it to make it like that
Shovel 'not a toy' , nope, its a joke lol. Great outing as always!
Nice video good one.
Hi the small bunker/pillbox on the norths side is I think the only accessible one left there is more but they have been back filled!
Thanks, guys.
I would be worried if that PDRM 82 showed anything. Those things were originally designed for military personnel to go into test sites after a detonation and before the fallout came back down whilst doing experiments. Later manufactured in orange and supplied to civil defence, but the reading resolution is so high that any significant reading at all on it would mean you are in serious trouble. Also the PDRM 82 has a radioactive source inside it to calibrate the instrument.
31:33 its GEC and thats a taxiway light. I was here now and then as an aircraft engineer with the RAF and watching RIAT!
32:31 ARE THEY LIVE? .....POKE POKE ROFL
33:19 WRONG they took off whichever way the wind was blowing on that day - so BOTH ways East or West.
It was a TWO MILE runway one of the longest in the UK at the time. Used as a Major Diversion Airfield for our base at RAF Brize Norton to the East
Get ya sens up to sellarfield. Weird place ive worked on site for a few weeks. Armed policed big gates. The area around is deffinatley contaminated. Further down the road there is a burial site for all the equipment used to put the fire out, (Also heavily guarded) you can get on the beach at Seascale and test the sand they scrape it every now and again as the rad sits on the beach. Cumbria has a high cancer rate and is a direct result of the contamination
So if a million tonne came off the runway that was the center of the "accident" to make the Newbury bypass shouldn't you be testing those parts of the A34 for radiation too ????. x
great video folks I think the airfield should have been kept and could have been utilised as a light aircraft or something along those lines from your Cornish fan
Nice
Cold steel make a good shovel 👍
Another great vlog folks!
Was the bit of runway still radioactive?
u guys should collect water samples too,any truth in the rumour about a tunnel linking awe burghfield to aldermaston?
That 1st thing looked WW1 to me just because how it's constructed.
Where is that building at 5 min in?
I would be surprised if you find a hotspot as all the topsoil was removed over the whole site including the runway.
It does seem strange that only a small one hundred yard section remains.
Less than that now lol
I'd love to spend a few days there looking around, it's only about a hour and a half drive from me, do you think I'd be OK parking up around there in my stealth camper van, does anyone local to the area know about that please?
Iron oxide you get the same colour of water at Lynemouth power station
All of these questions I asked 3 years ago walking around here with my mates have now been answered 😬 we came across that small River and we were joking about it being radioactive 😂 Cheers for the vids guy, always curious about this place and will be back again once the weather picks up
Water isn;t the issue radioactive particles are probably scattered randomly in the mud at the bottom of the stream. Contaminated water doesn't ACTUALLY mean the WATER is contaminated
but merely there may be deadly minute traces of radioactive isotopes within mud/stream which if in ingested would probably be fatal . Not if you go go near the water your face will fall off or A GEIGER counter go off the charts. LOL understant radioctive isotopes ..and you'll dicscovr more .
daniel sonhud it is amazing how little people remember about radiation from school...
And the fear around it. Unless you plan to eat or inhale the soil, nothing on this site is likely to harm you. And even if you did eat the soil, you would need to eat a piece of radioactive material such as plutonium, not just something that it has been in contact with.
It's shame that you didn't walk through whole runway with Geiger counter. It would be only 3km walk from start to end...
See you went through kintbury... where was you going then? That’s not even going toward Newbury?
At the middle point of the runway you can't see the ends.
Get a propper folding shovel from the army surplus store 🤣
Is it a blast shelter?
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Radioactive dogging !
I think its just rust in the water from iron maybe that tool made in china?
Interesting why they left that middle piece of runway what was there thinking possible landing ground for choppers in the future and I suppose now one of those Osprey aircraft.
Bob Young probably more to do with the effort involved in digging that section up vs leaving a small piece behind.
Your Geiger counter could have been reacting to your mobile phone as they say there is a small amount of radiation comes from the mobile devices
Darren Barrass but. I thought that a phone gives off non-ionising radiation? A Geiger counter is not the tool for that, you would need an RF meter.
Awesome video IKS as always👍👍 was Ben eating a Cornish pasty they really nice i always buy them from the Co op😂😂
That's exactly where it came from 😁, i needed the energy to get around this gigantic place 👍
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