Red Sands Radio - Part 14

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A flight over the Red Sands Radio catchment of North Kent Coast in photographs on Bank Holiday Monday 31st August 2009

1. Your Aircraft a Pelican Experimental G-MPAC is of Canadian design & the only one of its type in the UK

2. Your pilot today is Jon Leigh who'd been our guest on Red Sands Radio 'Live Lunch' on the 17th July 2009 & coincidentally now lives on what was once our family farm 'Sunset Orchard'

3. Push the button firing up the 'Pelican'

4. Setting off from Clipgate airfield

5. Jon on the stick as we leave terra firma

6. Passing over Canterbury Cathedral

You can clearly make out Burgate, Sun & Palace Streets with the Kings School & North Gate

7. The western edge of Whitstable with the Blue Anchor Caravan village at Seasalter, the Swale & Isle-of-Sheppey, the River Medway, Kingsnorth Power Station, the River Thames & Southend beyond

8. Left foreground Edward Vinson Tomato Growers at 'Sandbanks' Graveney, the Swale with Faversham/Oare Creek centre

9. The A299 new Thanet Way with the Chestfield Golf Club greens above the tunnel

10. Seaward side the Eastern edge of Whitstable with the Seaview Caravan Village at Swalecliffe, Hampton & Neptunes Jetty & the marooned pier head at Herne Bay & Town, West Gate & Margate beyond

Centre the London - Thanet South Eastern railway track alongside the old Thanet Way A2990, the Sainsbury's roundabout & store with Chestfield & the new Thanet Way A299 to the right

11. Seaward is Tankerton with the BMX/Roller Skate rink on the seawall, Longrock then the Seaview Caravan Village

12. Overview of Tankerton Bay with Long Rock & Herne Bay beyond

13. More detailed view of Tankerton Bay & Long Rock, St Augustine's Commercial Park centre, Chestfield & Swalecliffe station amongst the trees with the railway track & A2990 the straight road right is Maydowns Road

14. Swalecliffe Caravan Village bottom right, Hampton with its stub pier the remnants of Herne Bay's pier the marooned Victorian end with Neptune's Jetty at top

15. Windfarm on the Kentish Flats with Shivering Sands Forts left & Knock John Tower in the distance

16. The first view of Red Sands Buoy & Forts

17. Red Sands looking North East

18. These are the first aerial photographs showing the Red Sands Radio antenna installed in 2008

19. Searchlight Tower right, Bofors foreground, Control centre & 3.7" Gun Towers 1 - 4

20. Anti-clockwise Bofors Tower, Gun Tower 1, 2 (3) 3 & 4 (2) Searchlight Tower out of frame

21. Reminiscent of the Radio 390 publicity photograph widely used in 1966

22. Looking South West

23. Overhead the Fort complex & Buoy

24. Looking North West

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