Remembering the Bristol Freighters flying overhead.
Originally Posted by
TCAS FAN
dixi188
The Bristol Freighters most certainly did operate out of what was originally Southampton/Eastleigh. My parents house was about 1.5 miles from touchdown on the then runway 21, remember them thundering overhead.
They moved out in the early 1960s after flight cancellations caused by waterlogging of the grass runway.
Their stay at BOH was only temporary, moving back to SOU, together with the other airlines who moved out, within weeks of the opening of the new concrete runway, I believe in 1965.
"Bishopstoke"?. Me too , 1953 - 1972, employed at SOU airport 1970-1972 😀