AIRCRAFT GRAVEYARD Predannack Airfield CORNWALL

Predannack Airfield (ICAO: EGDO) is an aerodrome near Mullion on The Lizard peninsula of Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The runways are operated by the Royal Navy and today it is a satellite airfield and relief landing ground for nearby RNAS Culdrose.
The capitulation of France in June 1940 gave impetus to the building of numerous airfields across South West England which was now vulnerable to attack by the Luftwaffe. RAF Predannack was opened in May 1941 as a satellite for RAF Portreath. Accommodation was dispersed over a wide area, with officers accommodated in the Mullion Cove and Polurrian Hotels. The number of personnel reached peak strength of 3,600 by 1944.
Post-war
151 Squadron with its Mosquito XXXs continued flying from Predannack until April 1946,[4] and the following month the airfield closed being reduced to care and maintenance.
After a period of experimental use by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd under the supervision of Barnes Wallis from 1951 to September 1957, the base was taken over by the Royal Navy on 15 December 1958.[3] The airfield now operates as a satellite airfield for nearby RNAS Culdrose, to handle intensive helicopter operations and as a relief landing ground. There is also a small arms range on the site and the RN Fire Fighting School moved here in 1971.[3]
Current use: Wessex HAS.3 at Predannack Fire School
Predannack Airfield is routinely used for training purposes by helicopters from the Royal Navy. RNAS Culdrose is the Aerodrome Operator and responsible for actively managing and running the satellite airfield.[5]
It is also the practice base of Royal Naval School of Flight Deck Operations, which has a number of dummy aircraft for fire extinguishing practice, and a number of retired airframes for aircraft crash rescue practice, including a Westland Wessex, an English Electric Canberra and two Hawker Siddeley Harriers.
626 Volunteer Gliding Squadron unit operated by the RAF Air Cadets are also a lodger unit based at Predannack Airfield The airfield is also used by Goonhilly Model Flying Club (with MoD permission) and there has been hobby model flying on the field since the 1950s. The site is currently used by the international disaster relief agency Shelterbox as part of its Academy for Disaster Relief.
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[@tankuman]

Great video... I am a semi retired electro mechanical engineer and my mentor was Barnes Wallis whom you probanly know experimented with the Wild Goose at Predannack. I have to say I am very well read of Barnes and bearing in mind his intricate writings of his experiences I am astounded he failed at any time to mention such a significant hazard as the "Predannack Bush Bollox" 😊

[@amazonianm8876]

Predannack started life as an RAF site during the war. My father-in-law was stationed there when it first started and the they were living in tents in the winter before the huts were built. The mist would be driven in off the sea over the cliffs when you could barely stand up. The navy took over the site after the war when Culdrose was opened.

[@wilkjg1769]

All too often KZbinrs document subjects they have no knowledge of. You are one of the exceptions. I appreciate the information you provide and the honesty behind it. Thank you for your service to all those that want to see the unseen. Love the channel.

[@jakesgreatadventures]

Exactly that’s why Matt is one of the best

[@Liam.P1983]

Well done Matt on this explore, Enjoyed, Thanks.

[@peterstratford2241]

Spent many a long day in the Air Traffic Control tower back in the late 90s. Great place to work

[@andysimkin5200]

Fantastic vid Matt. Thank you! We flew on those Jetstreams from Raf Finningley nr Doncaster in the late 80's..

[@TheSecretVault]

What were you doing on them?

[@pauldevenish]

The aircraft ZA111 is a BAe Jetstream T-2 and first flew on 24/4/1969. Good find, it hadn't been retired long.

[@ExploringwithCarl]

Brilliant this was mate, This was on my to do list last year but went back up to Scotland instead 333 thumbs up 👍

[@doylefrost4314]

Those little "vanes" on the upper leading edge of the wing surface are called "Velocity Generators."

[@HistoryHunterDanunder]

Great Video Matt well researched and informative had me captivated from start to end was easy to smash the 👍

[@MathewBall]

I thought you might like some information on the Harrier, Matt. The Harrier Jump Jet can only fly vertically for 90 seconds because vertical take-off and landing use an enormous amount of skill on the part of the pilot and also a large amount of fuel. The Harrier can only hover for 90 seconds, in this time it uses 150 gallons of water to keep the engine cool. To save fuel a simple ramp allows the plane to take off on a very short runway.

[@margaretparker8781]

Liked the vlog from Margaret P

[@carlr2008]

alright Matthew brilliant video interesting place good watch thank you Matthew hipe you doing good 👍

[@andypandy9931]

The lynx you see flying now are Lynx Wildcats. The SeaKing was from 1968 and this one was made by Sikorsky for Westland to use for development.

[@petera8083]

Very intuitive Matt, thank you. Is a shame that you can’t get access to the former RAF base Kemble, now known as Cotswold airport aircraft graveyard. Or can you………… 👍

[@pauldevenish]

Hi, I tried to get into Kemble, but I was asked by Gloucestershire Constabulary to leave... Down the road at Aston Clinton they were fine.

[@TheSecretVault]

Ive wanted to go there. ive flew in the a few times, but never gone for an actual explore.

[@forestflyer6001]

@@TheSecretVault Good excuse to fly in again, you’ll have a legitimate excuse to be there & exploration must be covered by the landing fee 😉

[@justanoldman9762]

great presentation full of interesting information Keep safe &keep em posted.

[@kennethbarker852]

1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth💟💟💟👍👍👍

[@paulellis2248]

Thanks from doncaster uk 🇬🇧

[@markurbex6579]

I loved this place ,remember the pile high club toilet pic lol

[@familytelly6438]

@29:50 the little silver bayonet connectors are for a fuel level sensor. Your right to think fuel tanks. 30:57 the gold thing is a power resistor. 31:17 the pair of white RADOME covers are for the Radar Altimeter, one transmits a signal to the ground which bounces back and is received by the other. Altitude calculated from the time. 31:31 The Black box is the power supply for the Anti Collision lights. 32:00 Your description of the Pitot/Static system is off. Static is not a backup system. The system works with a pitot static probe/tube that sticks out into the airflow, it's usually a silver pointy tube with a hole in the front end (pitot) and a hole or two in the side (static). The altimeter uses the static pressure and the CSI (Combined Speed Indicator) uses both to calculate the speed of the aircraft depending on altitude. The grey box is an ADS (Air Data Sensor) which would also take the pitot / static pressures and convert them to electronic signals for use by the avionics systems. I've worked on / built Tornado, Harrier, currently Hawk & Eurofighter. :)

[@nicholassmith7078]

The thing he said was a rotor brake is actually the number three hydraulic hand pump.

[@exploringmetaldetecting5989]

THANK MATT VARY IN JOYBLE EXPLORE LOVE AIRCRAFT MAKE THINK HOW SOME THINK THAT BIG CAN STAY UP IN THE AIR

[@davidbaldwin602]

My Uncle has a farmhouse right next to Predannack Airfield and on his land is the UK's last remaining anti Aircraft battery station of its type....very much in tact but a little overgrown. A local man also has the type of anti aircraft gun that was used at the site and plans were afoot to regenerate the site as a museum type thing, however ill health prevented this from happening. Hope something happens in the future? He also used to breed beautiful Arab Stallions!

[@davyfella]

The thing that you reckon was a camera mount poking out of the bottom was the mount for the ALQ anti infra red missile jamming pod. We called it a Disco Ball because it has an infra red source thar spins around inside facetted glass prisms that send out random scattered IR beams to confuse missiles. No. The horizontal stabilizer is fixed and doesn't move. The push valves on the bottom of the lynx are water sediment drain valves to take a fuel sample to check if there is any water in the fuel. Those two chokes are mounted inside the Doppler radar antennas for the Radar altimeter instrument. Pitot head is mounted on the right hand side of the aircraft under the pilot's door. It compares pitot air pressure with static air pressure. What you see flying around are Wildcats which are a further development of the Lynx airframe. These are Mark 9s If they had skids they were Mark1 or Mark7

[@Angel-bp3ld]

Wow, what a spring of input again! Great vid!!!!!

[@georgesmith8113]

Good stuff. Thanks Matthew! 👍👍👍👊😎

[@jeffmccall8013]

The consoles in the rear of the Jetstream were where the student Observers sat to do their navigation exercises as part of the Basic Observer Course. The panels contained radios and RDF equipment used for dead reckoning navigation. Most sorties were carried out over the sea south of the Scillies. I did my course there in the early eighties and spent many hours sweating over a chart sat at one of those consoles.

[@kernow..exp.]

Another great video

[@simonyip5978]

Have you ever seen the size of the US Airforce storage sites for their old planes and the US Navy facilities for storing the decommissioned ships? They look absolutely massive, but I doubt that they are accessible to anyone.

[@peterstratford2241]

In the middle of the grass area between the tower and runway is the Barney Wallis ramp. Used to test jet engines

[@greatestjourney6412]

Good video

[@stevenmccolm1531]

Goldfinger was the film reference. On the Westland Lynx helicopter the piece you mentioned was the machine gun mount. The Handley Page Jetstream was flown by the Royal Navy used for Navigation Training. The two seater jet is the Jaguar. Sea Harrier flown by the Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm, RAF Harrier GR.3. Great video

[@columbo7927]

Extremely interesting Matthew Thank you

[@paulbetsworth4047]

Matt, you should think about doing audio books, I could listen to you for hours and learn so much. Best channel on KZbin, love you in a non gay way 😂

[@mrskernowexp8807]

Brilliant video 😀

[@markh9308]

Great video Matt glad u make the jokes makes me laugh better than being miserable keep the jokes going love it cheers great vids 👍👍👍👍

[@Ben501uk]

RNAS Culdrose is about 12 miles from RNAS Predannack, the control tower you point out is the Predannack control tower. The airfield is still in use for practice landings and firefighting training, the Royal Naval Fire Fighting School is based at Predannack, you will regularly see them training on the airfield most days. BTW the Westland Lynx is basically an advanced model of the Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) first developed in 1952 and made famous in Vietnam. The RN retired the aircraft in 2017 and the Army in 2018.

[@truthhurts7537]

Correct

[@jimcook1161]

Not true, the Lynx was developed as an alternative to the Huey, not a development of as they dont share any major components or designs. Westland tended to partner up with Sikorsky, not Bell

[@Ben501uk]

@@jimcook1161 They are the same design. It’s a derivative of the Huey.

[@Systemrat2008]

The U2 (dragon lady) is not a glider, but has a very wide wingspan due to it operating at very high altitude. That helped keep it safe from Soviet fighters, but that is no longer the case. Watching them take off is amazing. The Pogo stick wheels fall away, but what amazed me is the speed and noise they can go what seems vertically straight up.

[@MathewBall]

The Lockheed U-2 aircraft or Dragon Lady was a reconnaissance aircraft it was essentially a jet-powered glider. The design was powered by the General Electric J73 engine and took off from a special cart and landed on its belly. It could reach an altitude of 73,000 feet (22,300 m) and had a 1,600 mi (1,400 NMI; 2,600 km) radius.

[@FlyingApes]

@45:47 Those are for window deicing. To rephrase, its for window heat.

[@jimmime]

DE PLANE, DE PLANE, that's from a different Fantasy Island, not quite like Jeffey's Fantasy Island.

[@JR_Taylor]

Ive been here couple of years back. Its not really a plane graveyard. The reason some planes are on there sides is cos its a search and rescue training area. They hide a dummy on a plane and the search and resue have to find them. The planes or on there side as though they have crashed. They do a lot of night training in the area.

[@spookydude7449]

"The plan the plan" was from fantasy Island

[@belindamoles9192]

It's de plane is from Fantasy Island @Matt, I used to like watching that in my childhood years lol 😆

[@paulyh4531]

So did I. The plane ,plane boss 😂

[@belindamoles9192]

Lol x

[@Gossamer2]

Yeah, his name was Tattoo I believe.

[@davependrill2897]

Im currently working at predannack and all these aircraft are gone😢

[@berylcroft5325]

Great video loved it.

[@davyfella]

No, you dont rev, rev rev the engines on a Lynx by twisting the grip on the collective lever. The fuel control levers are mounted above the windscreen. The lynx has all the controls interlinked which meant as you applied cyclic input it would automatically apply increased collective and apply a corresponding tail rotor input. Whilst you're up on top of the cab. There is a pure silver bearing in the top of the Main Rotor Gearbox. It's worthwhile prising that out and selling it to a jeweller.

[@MAGICAL_CORNWALL]

Been here many times over the years crazy airfield 🤪

[@ianplatt1375]

Great so knowledgeable as usual

[@bboy8510]

As of our visit August 2022 the harrier’s and jaguar are gone, Luckily had been before back in 2020 and saw them, also use to be a largish prop plane and another jet plane over the back, but again they are gone now.

[@nirvarney211]

Hey buddy planning on going tomoz so what planes are there still?

[@bboy8510]

@@nirvarney211 Last year all the military planes they were all gone, they had been up for auction earlier in the year, the harriers etc, just a few helicopters left then. let us know how you get on, if they have been replaced etc. Cheers..

[@MrGMawson2438]

Great video guys 👍

[@OLIFAB]

Great video Matt 👍🏼

[@darkages4589]

that helicopter 😮

[@justbrad1664]

RNAS Culdrose still use it to train they’re drone pilots and test drones or whatever, I live in helston and have been watching your videos for a while, if your still down here for a bit, I know of a little R.O.C post that is close to Helston that’s in pretty good condition if your interested

[@JR_Taylor]

I heard a drone launch when i was there

[@Ben501uk]

RNAS Culdrose is about 12 miles from RNAS Predannack, the control tower you point out is the Predannack control tower. The airfield is still in use for practice landings and firefighting training, the Royal Naval Fire Fighting School is based at Predannack, you will regularly see them training on the airfield most days. BTW the Westland Lynx is basically an advanced model of the Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) first developed in 1952 and made famous in Vietnam. The RN retired the aircraft in 2017 and the Army in 2018.

[@gavster023]

R.O.C Post didn't know there were any down this way, been to a few in Kent back in the 90's that were still very intact. Baffled me what they were back then as locals referred to them as cold war bunkers.

[@peterstratford2241]

RNSFDO Royal Naval School of Flight Deck Operations

[@DigitalArtisan77]

That flyover was cool, what allowed the animated effect? Looked amazing.

[@sandmanbub]

Whoop!!

[@KatherineD0506]

Answer to your question " The planes, the planes" comes from the show Fantasy Island 70's American tv show ( showing my age)

[@briancorty4348]

It’s heated windows in that glass same system used on range rovers

[@lyndonowen8525]

In the wings ....any place for karosne Or just compressed HAIR

[@raybentos3215]

You got it rich down the Lizard

[@michaelsnow7252]

Interesting been past there loads of times but never looked in...

[@chelle-fallen-angel]

Great explore...but did you spot any lizards?

[@paulinnes4493]

Yip back to front where my wing man ? Yup there's a machine just like mat in his hellie copter 🤙

[@fraggit]

VHF and UHF line of sight only, tut tut, you should know about tropospheric ducting Matt 😉

[@TheSecretVault]

Yes but I dont think they would be relying on such stuff as a stable way to communicate... those phenomena are just for us Hams...

[@fraggit]

@@TheSecretVault I was just teasing your knowledge. You wouldn't be able to rely on it, but it happens more than you think in the summer months.

[@nelsoncasari5435]

Jet fuel is actually kerosene, no diesel.

[@briancorty4348]

The plane the plane =fansty Island

[@lucymulligan3314]

Deadlegs...🤣 is deadlights a steven king reference?

[@peterstratford2241]

Jetstream aircraft were used to train RN Observers

[@Aztec_UK]

Wow! yeah filmed here last year, must get around to editing it

[@briancorty4348]

Seakings the top are throttles there are none on the collective

[@peterstratford2241]

Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose not RAF

[@TheSecretVault]

Yeah I slipped up quite a few time with what I meant to say...

[@briancorty4348]

Helicopter torque pedals not rudder

[@theshadow6705]

The plane you didn't know was a jaguar

[@beedevonlife]

👍😊

[@adams7351]

👍

[@Martins-play-ground]

Leonardo helicopters have now took over agustawestlands.

[@TheSecretVault]

Wow...

[@andypandy9931]

Same company

[@MrGMawson2438]

During the 1980s, a second generation Harrier emerged; manufactured in the United States as the AV-8B and in Britain as the British Aerospace Harrier II respectively. I just copied and pasted this for no real reason 😆

[@MrGMawson2438]

Always the victim 😂 What's gone in the boot 🤣

[@MegaBoilermaker]

Well prepared eh ! There are also snakes in that "gorse stuff".

[@briancorty4348]

The plane the plane =fansty Island