RAF Carnaby

Royal Air Force Carnaby or more simply RAF Carnaby is a former Royal Air Force emergency landing strip that offered crippled bombers a safe place to land near the English coast during the Second World War.

[4] Two similar airfields were either constructed or further developed along the east coast of England, at Manston and Woodbridge, all three providing an emergency option for wartime bomber crews.

[5] These airfields were intended for use by returning bombers suffering from low fuel and/or suspected damage to their pneumatic (wheel brake) and/or hydraulic (undercarriage) systems.

[4] Air Chief Marshal Basil Embry in Mission Completed believed that the three emergency runways were constructed as a result of the success of the 3 mi (4.8 km)-long landing strip and flarepath at RAF Wittering in accepting over 70 damaged aircraft from Bomber Command.

[11] RAF Carnaby was for many years used for the storage of new Lada cars and a parts distribution centre.

The runway at the former RAF Carnaby, south of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Formerly an emergency landing base for RAF Bomber Command, with an unusually long and wide runway for damaged bombers returning from Europe in the Second World War.