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pilot8
25th May 2016, 12:55
So how close to London do you have to be to claim to be a London Airport?
Stanstead, Luton & a while ago Manston put London before their name?
Is their a tried method or does it depend on transport links or if you get away with it??

Interested Passenger
25th May 2016, 13:16
and Southend :)

Null Orifice
25th May 2016, 13:38
Oxford.
:E:E:E:E:E:E

treadigraph
25th May 2016, 13:54
Prestwick! I distinctly recall some chat about London Prestwick Airport, though just how tongue-in-cheek the conversation was I remember not. Probably talking about Ryan Air...

(I've just been looking at Brighton City Airport's website, sorry guys you are still Shoreham Airport to me...)

chevvron
25th May 2016, 15:01
Lympne used to be called 'London Ashford' (probably because nobody could figure out how to pronounce Lympne - we know a story about that don't we) and now I believe that title has been hi-jacked by Lydd.

HEATHROW DIRECTOR
25th May 2016, 15:03
It's just PR madness. I worked at London Airport but I think it's now called Heathrow, or something. I know there are those who would have Blackbushe similarly daubed!

ian16th
25th May 2016, 15:51
Didn't it start at Croydon?

DaveReidUK
25th May 2016, 17:07
Some airports are just taking the mickey. :O

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/YXU_control_tower.jpg/250px-YXU_control_tower.jpg

chevvron
25th May 2016, 18:30
Some airports are just taking the mickey. :O

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/YXU_control_tower.jpg/250px-YXU_control_tower.jpg
Er where's that then?

DaveReidUK
25th May 2016, 18:44
Er where's that then?

http://cc2yso.uwo.ca/images/london_namap.gif

LTNman
25th May 2016, 19:33
Well seeing this is the History thread we could add some real London Airports to the list like Hendon and Cricklewood. Not many people know about Cricklewood but it was home to Handley Page and I believe used to have passenger services from there.

DaveReidUK
25th May 2016, 21:11
Ditto Hounslow Heath, come to that, though I think we're drifting rather off-topic.

chevvron
26th May 2016, 08:39
Hanworth, Heston, Fairlop, Hornchurch.

dixi188
26th May 2016, 10:45
London-Hurn!

In 1945, what is now known as Bournemouth International Airport, was used by BOAC and others, for the first intercontinental flights after the war.

PAXboy
26th May 2016, 21:37
The Great West Airport? If memory serves? Based at the Fairey Aviation Company, now where SkyChefs have their warehouse and kitchens. I sit to be corrected.

DaveReidUK
26th May 2016, 22:27
I don't know where SkyChefs are located, but the easiest way to visualise where the Great West Aerodrome was is to imagine Cains Lane continuing in the same direction north of the A30, as it once did, forming the northeast boundary of the aerodrome. It's the road running L/R across the middle of this photo.

http://gibbsofbedfont.co.uk/koken/storage/cache/images/000/188/frs62FaireyAerodrome1,medium_large.1454339218.jpg

The hangar visible in the photo is Fairey's, and is the same one that for many years was visible on the far side of the Terminal 2 apron:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/View_from_Heathrow_Airport_Queen%27s_Building_1960s.jpg

lotus1
27th May 2016, 08:13
I beleive Thomas sopwith used Putney common London sw15 to test his first prototypes could this had been londons first airport he use to live along Wimbledon park side

WHBM
27th May 2016, 09:03
I think this is the closest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heron_Quays_plaque.jpg

binbrook
27th May 2016, 13:44
Any fule know London Airport is on Eday.

Airclues
28th May 2016, 09:21
Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is 70 miles from Frankfurt.

PAXboy
28th May 2016, 11:54
Thanks DaveRedidUK. My father worked at Fairey's as teenager in 1939/40, whilst waiting to sign up. My paternal grandfather flew from the airport many times in the 1930.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_West_Aerodrome

If you use a mapping or search site for The Green Man pub at TW14 0PZ, that places you in Faggs Road. Then take a 'birds eye' view of the area and you can see the buildings on the South Side of Faggs Road. Taking a closer look, it seems that Sky Chefs have moved since I was last on that road. Radius park is a light industrial park on the site.

BEagle
4th Jun 2016, 07:42
In the latest phase of its somewhat gypsy existence, the University of London Air Squadron now has to fly from that well-known aerodrome very close to London...

RAF Wittering.

Which would have meant a 90 mile drive from my old Halls of Residence! We thought that White Waltham was a bit of a trek, but Wittering??

southender
4th Jun 2016, 16:25
Was not Fairlop being considered as the main London airport before Heathrow won out?

DaveReidUK
4th Jun 2016, 18:56
Was not Fairlop being considered as the main London airport before Heathrow won out?

Yes, though Hansard refers to it as "an airport for London", not necessarily the main London airport.

LONDON AIRPORT (FAIRLOP). (Hansard, 2 February 1938) (http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1938/feb/02/london-airport-fairlop)

WHBM
5th Jun 2016, 06:59
Was not Fairlop being considered as the main London airport before Heathrow won out?
I believe the actual ownership was to be the City of London Corporation. There doesn't seem to have been a central coordination of airports, investors were left to their own thing (sound familiar ?).

Meanwhile the Southern Railway got just a bit further with their own proposal for an airport at Lullingstone, near Swanley in Kent. The Southern Railway were one of the shareholders in Imperial Airways, who wanted to get away from the London Fogs which regularly disrupted Croydon airport at the time. Lullingstone is high up on the chalk hills plateau between Swanley and Sevenoaks, and relatively free from these. The M25 motorway between junctions 3 and 4 now passes through the site.

The railway actually got started and built the junction station for the short airport branch, none of which ever opened but parts of the station are still visible from a train between Swanley and Otford.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lullingstone_Airfield


Lullingstone (http://www.kentrail.org.uk/Lullingstone.htm)