Originally Posted by
edi_local
Some airports also do airside tours on buses. Why UK airports have to pretend that security issues prevent this kind of thing is beyond me. EDI gives over it's old runway to a charity car racing event, or it has done a few times. They could easily offer airside tours, for example. Charge a small fee and it'd be a money maker from local school groups and visitors too.
In the mid sixties, as well as spending the day on the top of the Queens Building at "London Airport", I recall a day trip to Southend which included a visit to the airport and a tour around the airfield on a Southend Transport double decker bus. I recall seeing a couple of Ansett DC-4 noses which had been chopped off for Carvair conversions by Aviation Traders. Of course, in those days Southend was the fifth or sixth busiest in the UK!