Netko wrote in
:

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:33:39 +0100, PilotJedi wrote
(in article ):

Châteaudun air base formed in 1951 is the largest aircraft storage
centre in Europe. It is essentially a Gallic version of AMARG
(Aerospace

Thanks for this - an interesting place which I'd never heard of before.

I have a question. What does the Wikipedia English language entry for
Châteaudun mean when it says that, during WW2, its new German owners
'undertook infrastructure projects including the construction of zones
of loosening called "daisies" and the track'?

I assume it's a translation problem but I can't get my head round it;
neither the French nor German Wikipedia entries appear to have anything
equivalent.

Can anyone help?

The "daisies," or "margarites" in French and shortened to "marg" in
English military slang, were likely dispersal areas for aircraft served by
a track that led to the taxiways. Vestiges of the post-war variety can be
seen on the airfield of the former CFB Baden-Soellingen on Google maps at
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=CFB+B...inm%C3%BCnster,
+Germany&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.781787,8.090572&spn=0 .016062,0.038452&sll=
37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.456673,78.75&t=h&z=15.
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