[jhb] Re: Andreas
- From: "Fossil" <fossil@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:43:51 +0100
I hope the spider fairy gets you..
bones
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-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Phil Reynolds
Sent: 18 October 2009 12:25
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: Andreas
I wasn't even born then ;) <slinks off to the nearest dark corner to hide>
Phil
Fossil wrote:
> Ashley used to have G-AWIT and G-AYPV, both circa 1970 vintage aircraft.
> Horrifyingly I remember them when they were brand new.
>
> bones
> bones@xxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Gerry Winskill
> Sent: 18 October 2009 10:50
> To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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