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Just spotted this info...
City Airport announces runway improvement and extension project « City Airport and Heliport (http://cityairportandheliport.com/city-airport-announces-runway-improvement-and-extension-project)
Nice to see some improvements taking place.
Shaggy Sheep Driver
3rd Apr 2015, 07:29
Hmm. Still no hard runways, then.
Hmm. Still no hard runways, then.
Well yes - but only on a couple of random days in August :p
cockney steve
3rd Apr 2015, 11:27
A bit of levelling is not before time, is it?....at least it's being improved and it seems, a new, additional hangar is planned.
Shaggy Sheep Driver
3rd Apr 2015, 16:44
Since time immemorial Barton has been leveled, rolled, drained, leveled, drained, rolled.
But it's an ex-night soil dumping site on a peat bog. It ain't ever going to be a smooth flat well-drained airfield.
KLM realised that as as soon as it opened, and on KLM's inaugural visit their Captain Smirnoff told Manchester Corporation that his airline wasn't ever going there again.
So Ringway was opened instead.