Post by johnl on Sept 14, 2009 6:58:45 GMT -5
The current Bristol International Airport would not have handled the 1939 Irish Overseas Airways flights featured in this month's excellent feature, as there were no flying operations there until 1940, when it started life as RAF Lulsgate Bottom, a relief landing field, and prone to hilltop fogs, for a nearby EFTS. Postwar, it spent several years as Luslgate Airfield, home to a gliding club, until it's expansion and renaming as Bristol Lulsgate Airfield saw it's first airliners arrive.
So where did they land?
The answer is (or was) 6 miles away at Bristol (Whitchurch) airport which served the city from 1930 to 1957, with the exception of wartime years when BOAC's international operations and the ferry pilots of the ATA moved in.
If anyone wants simple FS9 scenery (flatten, exclude, windsock, and a choice of AF2 files for grass or hardened runways) of Bristol Whitchurch, please PM me.
So where did they land?
The answer is (or was) 6 miles away at Bristol (Whitchurch) airport which served the city from 1930 to 1957, with the exception of wartime years when BOAC's international operations and the ferry pilots of the ATA moved in.
If anyone wants simple FS9 scenery (flatten, exclude, windsock, and a choice of AF2 files for grass or hardened runways) of Bristol Whitchurch, please PM me.