Originally Posted by
Mooncrest
The thing that struck me about spectating at Manchester was the smell of kerosene all over the pier and terminal roofs. Nowadays, turbine engines burn much cleaner and the car park roof is as close as you can get to the action so the pier pong is long since gone. Shame.
My family moved to Heald Green in 1960 and so I grew up downwind of the airport. Its also probably why I now work at Boscombe and even today when the odd wiff of jet exhaust drifts through the office window I feel homesick.