What is the smallest airport you have flown from?
For me it was the Bristol and Gloucestershire Gliding Club at Nympsfield in the Cotswolds above the Severn Vale near Stroud in Gloucestershire. My first and so far only glider trip was in a Schleicher KA-13 which was towed into the air and the pilot, who was brave enough to let me 'have a go' for few minutes, kept us circling, riding the thermals for nearly an hour.
More recently I was taken up in a Tiger Moth from what is perhaps pretentiously called Torquay Airport in Victoria, Australia. It's a grass strip but the company running it has a selection of small passenger aircraft available for sight-seeing trips, as well as the Tiger Moths for those who want an al fresco experience - highly recommended for people with an interest in such things.
As for a regular airport, probably Bristol around fifty years ago when its runway was considerably shorter than its current ratherly miserly 2011 metres and fewer annual passengers were handled than it now sees in a busy summer long weekend.
For me it was the Bristol and Gloucestershire Gliding Club at Nympsfield in the Cotswolds above the Severn Vale near Stroud in Gloucestershire. My first and so far only glider trip was in a Schleicher KA-13 which was towed into the air and the pilot, who was brave enough to let me 'have a go' for few minutes, kept us circling, riding the thermals for nearly an hour.
More recently I was taken up in a Tiger Moth from what is perhaps pretentiously called Torquay Airport in Victoria, Australia. It's a grass strip but the company running it has a selection of small passenger aircraft available for sight-seeing trips, as well as the Tiger Moths for those who want an al fresco experience - highly recommended for people with an interest in such things.
As for a regular airport, probably Bristol around fifty years ago when its runway was considerably shorter than its current ratherly miserly 2011 metres and fewer annual passengers were handled than it now sees in a busy summer long weekend.
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