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Originally Posted by merlinmaxwell
When SHMBO and I went for a balloon flight for some (dim and distant) wedding anniversary said balloon went over the Aldermaston weapons factory, it was on the pilots map, I suppose best not to crash into it!
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The NATS map
https://www.aurora.nats.co.uk/htmlAI...hics/27357.pdf says the airspace over and for some distance around AWE Aldermaston is Restricted (ref R101). You might have been OK if you were flying out of Brimpton, who have a special exemption
https://www.brimpton-airfield.co.uk/...tion/r101-zone, but I'd be very surprised if any flying at typical balloon heights over the site itself would have been tolerated. On the few occasions I've been in and out of AWE the weapons in the hands of the security people there have left me in no doubt about their attitude to uninvited visitors.
Getting back to the topic, I did check to see whether the Stokenchurch tower was on my 1974 OS map of Oxford (sheet 164). It wasn't, but the reason was that it is just off the east edge of the sheet. Does anyone have sheet 165 ?
Cheers,
GJ