Editing Hickling Broad (section)

==Sea planes==
[[File:Hickling Broad aerial image (21233749111).jpg|thumb|left|Hickling Broad waterfront]]
Hickling Broad was used as reserve station for sea planes by the [[Royal Naval Air Service|RNAS]], in the period 1916–1918, as an escape for RNAS South Denes. It was known as RNAS Hickling Broad. Contractors started building a concrete slipway, but this was never completed. Eventually, Hickling was only used for two emergency landings. A separate arrangement allowed seaplanes destined for [[Great Yarmouth]] to land on the calmer waters of the broad if the sea were too rough (this arrangement stands to this day). RNAS South Denes was located in the area which is now the South Denes Camping and Caravan site.<ref>[http://www.edp24.co.uk/features/great-yarmouth-s-air-aces-who-took-on-the-zeppelins-1-5306354  ''Great Yarmouth’s air aces who took on the Zeppelins''; Trevor Heaton;  Article] in the [[Eastern Daily Press]]; 16 december 2017</ref> There is a commemorative [[Blue plaque]] in Regent Street in Great Yarmouth, it reads "Headquarters of the Royal Naval Air Service Occupied these premises during WWI April 1913-November 1918 Flying land & sea planes from South Denes, Hickling Broad[s] [sic], and heavily involved in anti Zeppelin warfare."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/blue-plaque-4198-in-great-yarmouth-4198#.WlaJEjciHcs |title=The Blue Plaque (4918) in Great Yarmouth on the Blue Plaque website |access-date=10 January 2018 |archive-date=11 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180111110258/http://www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/blue-plaque-4198-in-great-yarmouth-4198#.WlaJEjciHcs |url-status=dead }}</ref>