A Huge Solar Farm on an Abandoned World War 2 Airfield (Drone Footage)

This Drone Footage Video captures an abandoned/ inactive former World War 2 airfield which has now been modernised and converted in to a Huge Solar Farm.

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Location: Priors Hill, Wroughton, Swindon SN4 0QT/ SN4 9NS, UK.

RAF Wroughton was a Royal Air Force airfield which opened on 1 April 1940. At some point in time, control of RAF Wroughton was handed over to the Royal Navy, and it became RNAS Wroughton. RAF Hospital Wroughton was part of the station and the RAF General Hospital (as it was known) opened on 14 June 1941 under the command of Gp. Capt. E C Foreman, during the second world war. By October 1943, 8 additional wards had been constructed. At the end of March 1944 the bed capacity was 1000. SECO hutting with inter-connecting corridors added a further 350 beds. Wroughton’s busiest period followed the allied landings in Normandy on D-Day. The first casualties arrived on 13 June 1944, landing at nearby RAF Lyneham.

In the 6-months following D-Day 4,811 casualties passed through Wroughton. Wroughton continued as a General Hospital treating military patients, and from 1958 took NHS cases to relieve backlogs of patients in the Swindon area. Following Princess Alexandra visit to the hospital nn 4 July 1967, the Queen named the hospital “Princess Alexandra’s” on 4 October 1967. When the hostages from Beirut were released in August 1991, Wg Cdr Gordon Turnbull, a psychiatrist based at Wroughton, with his team, debriefed John McCarthy, Terry Waite and Jackie Mann and provided the counselling necessary to ease them back into freedom.

The hospital closed on 31 March 1996 as part of the Conservative Government's defence cuts at the end of the cold war. The hospital was eventually demolished and the site, called Alexandra Park, contains housing and a hotel and as of 2013 planning permission was given for a large solar farm to be constructed on about 67 hectares of the airfield and this is what you can see in this video, where over 150,000 solar panels lay, in a joint project of Swindon Commercial Services now known as Public Power Solutions, a commercial arm of Swindon Borough Council and the Science Museum Group.

It is also now the home of The Grand Tour motoring series' test track.

Equipment Used: DJI Phantom 3 Advanced
Editing Software: Final Cut Pro X
Music: 'Over The Skyline' by Janis71
Assess Link: http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/181484

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