BIRMINGHAM and surrounding airfields
If anyone is interested in the history of Birmingham and its airfields could they PM me please or post on here?
Birmingham and the surrounding area had many airfields such as Shirley, Kings Heath, Knowle and Hockley Heath,
http://www.warwickshireaviation.co.uk/file0002.htm
these and more are covered in Alf Jenks book,
"Aviation in Warwickshire Between the Wars"
The book is privately published by Alf and only available from
http://www.warwickshireaviation.co.uk/
The author is hoping to interview more people who worked at Elmdon and recently interviewed an engineer who started at Elmdon a few months after it opened in 1939. He also worked at the sixties company Mid Fly.
He has also interviewed the last CFI of the Midland Aero Club and the Warwickshire Aero Club..
If anyone else worked at Elmdon, was based there or flew from there can they also make contact please.(esp pre 1980)
Birmingham airport will be 70 years old next year and it is hoped an event can be arranged..
Last edited by llanfairpg; 11th Jan 2008 at 10:33.