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Old 19th Jan 2016, 21:17
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Many thanks.

Bristol hasn't had a lot of luck, or perhaps lack of foresight is more accurate, with its airport sites. Whitchurch that served the nation so well in WW2 closed in the mid 1950s because the city council decided it was too small for future types of aircraft.

So what did they do? Bought a former RAF station, which was by then a glider club, on a small site on top of a mist-laden hill that stored up exactly the same problems for future generations that led them to close Whitchurch.

And just across the city was a works aerodrome that possessed most things that Lulsgate lacks. It doesn't any more of course.

The fact that BRS/EGGD is thriving makes many wonder if it would not be even more successful if it had become FZO/EGTG.
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