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May 13, 2020Good article nomineeListed
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Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 30, 2007.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that several British Royal Air Force Stations were used by the U.S. Strategic Air Command (emblem pictured) for almost 20 years?
Current status: Good article

Inaccurate map

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The map of air bases is very inaccurate. Almost all of the base locations are wrong, by a distance on the map that's at least three or four times the size of the marker squares.

  • Bruntingthorpe is too far north, and should be somewhere around where Chelveston is shown.
  • Chelveston should be south-east of Bruntingthorpe, probably somewhere around the "d" of "RAF Mildenhall".
  • Fairford is shown as being ENE of Brize Norton; it is actually SW of Brize Norton and its true location is somewhere around the "r" of "Upper" in "RAF Upper Heyford". Brize Norton is shown too far north and way too far west.
  • Greenham Common is too far north and should be somewhere around the last "m" of its label.
  • Marham is too far east and should be about where the tops of the two l's of "Mildenhall" are.
  • Mildenhall is much too far west and should be about where Lakenheath is shown; Lakenheath is only a couple of kilometers away from Mildenhall, to the north-east.
  • St Eval is actually about half-way between the marked location and Land's End.
  • Scampton is actually about where the "R" of "RAF Waddington" is, only about 10km north of Waddington.

Dricherby (talk) 14:38, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dricherby: I have redrawn the map. Could you have another look and see if everything is in the correct place? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:50, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Hawkeye7: That's a big improvement -- thanks! However, Marham and Lakenheath are in completely the wrong place (as I said, Lakenheath is only a couple of km from Mildenhall). Waddington is due south of Scampton, not south-east. St Eval has disappeared. Dricherby (talk) 00:28, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Dricherby: Thanks! I had Lakenheath's longitude as west instead of east, and there was a typo on RAF Waddington's. I left St Eval out because it is neither mentioned in the article nor in my sources as a station used by SAC. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:08, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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