[jhb] Re: Andreas
- From: "Fossil" <fossil@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:39:16 +0100
Ashley used to have G-AWIT and G-AYPV, both circa 1970 vintage aircraft.
Horrifyingly I remember them when they were brand new.
bones
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Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 18 October 2009 10:50
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Subject: [jhb] Re: Andreas
Whilst there a Cherokee appeared and landed. A check shows it belongs to
a chap in Bride. I looked up past owners and is started its IOM
existance with Ashley Garner.
Gerry Winskill
Fossil wrote:
> Andreas was essentially derelict from the 1960's onwards. It was not used
as
> an airfield for a long time despite Lionel trying to attract customers.
Some
> of us had permission to fly in during the 1970's but I only tried it once
-
> the surface was terrible. It wasn't just grass growing through the
concrete,
> it had wheel size holes in the surface and FOD lying all over the place.
>
> It was only the gliding/microlight activity that kicked it into action and
> they had to tidy up the surface runway themselves. The hangars are indeed
> cheapo affairs and the clubhouse an old Portakabin. My photos of that
period
> show Andreas in a very bad state and more farmland than airfield. It seems
> not to have changed much but I doubt anyone is going to fork out for
> bringing it up to even reasonable condition.
>
> Manx Flyers had a ban on the place after they had to replace two props
badly
> dented by the loose surface.
>
> bones
> bones@xxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Gerry Winskill
> Sent: 18 October 2009 09:25
> To: JHB Restricted
> Subject: [jhb] Andreas
>
> I mentioned earlier, I think, that I couldn't get access to Andreas, so
> that Tony Meredith might do a more accurate version. Well, yesterday I
> got in. The announcement, last week, that there was to be a landing at
> Jurby was wrong. It was in fact the arrival at Andreas of a locally
> funded Kodiak; a present to a Missionary Organisation.
>
> Having got in, ostensibly as being interested in the mission, I was
> quite shocked at how different it is from the GE based version that I
> did, a couple of years ago, and the more recent Tony Meredith version.
>
> The shock started with the hangars, which are just a couple of small
> plastic sheet over hoops type. Rather like an overgrown Nissen hut.
>
> Next was how little of the rest of the field can be seen, from the
> hangar area. Most of the total area is covered in cereal crops, with
> scrub thrown in, to limit sightlines.
>
> The old disused runway section used as the visitors' apron is tiny and
> has scrub on one side and what look like a collection of scrap vehicles
> on the other. One of these is the fuel bowser!
>
> The derelict WWII Control Tower isn't, now, even in the same fields.
>
> It was only thinking about it after arriving home that I realised it was
> my expectation that was wrong. If thought of as a farm strip whose
> runways just happen to be clapped out tarmac, then that gives a better
> appreciation of the place.
>
> Unfortunately, most design problems don't do dereliction!
>
> Gerry Winskill
>
>
>
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