Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
The remaining parts of the main runway and taxiways of RAF Clifton, which saw operation during WWII, and was the site for dismantling a big proportion of the Halifax Bombers at the war's end. Go to the Elvington Air Museum to see a working instance of a remaining Halifax (They have a Gloster Meteor too: my Dad worked on those during his National Service).
You get to this location by crossing the York Ring Road at the Tesco roundabout, hopping over a barbed wire fence, and beating through trees and brambles. It wouldn't pass the Risk Assessment for any club outing.
Sorry if some of the video is a bit 'herky-jerky': I'm still learning, and I was trying to edit it to gradually slow down and come to a freeze frame.
Choosing 'incidental' music for YouTube videos is a fraught experience: vast quantities of what's out there has some ludicrous copyright extending for 95 years beyond the death of the last claimant to the Artist's and or Composer's estate. I wanted to set this to Glenn Miller's 'String of Pearls' but 80 years after the original Recording, and GMs death, it is still under Copyright. So I picked a classical piece from Musopen: a version of Schubert's 8th that is free to use.
The remaining parts of the main runway and taxiways of RAF Clifton, which saw operation during WWII, and was the site for dismantling a big proportion of the Halifax Bombers at the war's end. Go to the Elvington Air Museum to see a working instance of a remaining Halifax (They have a Gloster Meteor too: my Dad worked on those during his National Service).
You get to this location by crossing the York Ring Road at the Tesco roundabout, hopping over a barbed wire fence, and beating through trees and brambles. It wouldn't pass the Risk Assessment for any club outing.
Sorry if some of the video is a bit 'herky-jerky': I'm still learning, and I was trying to edit it to gradually slow down and come to a freeze frame.
Choosing 'incidental' music for YouTube videos is a fraught experience: vast quantities of what's out there has some ludicrous copyright extending for 95 years beyond the death of the last claimant to the Artist's and or Composer's estate. I wanted to set this to Glenn Miller's 'String of Pearls' but 80 years after the original Recording, and GMs death, it is still under Copyright. So I picked a classical piece from Musopen: a version of Schubert's 8th that is free to use.
