crackling jet,
That may be the correct version. I meant to type reportedly, not reputedly (would be a hopeless proof reader), because the peppercorn rent thing is the story that has appeared in the local press in the past, but I can no longer find a reference.
I suppose the only question would be whether a tenancy arrangement would have resulted in the necessary expensive infrastructure being put into place.
It's all what might have been now but I sometimes wonder what level a Filton-sited Bristol Airport would now have reached, always assuming the infrastructure kept pace with development.