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Directions to Aerodromes in Britain

13 Aug 2010 12:53 #1 by Paul Francis
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Published by PB Enterprises (Aero) by PB Hardy, the 4th edition published in August 1978

Anyone familiar with this booklet? Must admit I turned my nose up at this back in the 1970s, as I thought back then that you needed was the Merseyside British Airfields Guide. However it has now caught my attention. Of note are the following lists:

Civil airports
Other major civil aerodromes
Factories and flight testing aerodromes
RAE etc
Active military
Inactive military
Disused
Aeronautical Farms
Hillside gliding sites
Private strips with no home-based planes
Helicopter and gyrocopter landing sites
Other helicopter landing sites
Museums etc

I wonder what happened to PB Hardy, he came from the Manchester area I think.
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13 Aug 2010 13:27 #2 by carnaby
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Virtually nothing on the web, but it is mentioned in this thread

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13 Aug 2010 13:34 #3 by NJR
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You mean this one Paul? Picked it up at cockpitfest at Newark when we had the ARG display there, a guy was giving books away so I picked this up for the archive.

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13 Aug 2010 13:44 #4 by Paul Francis
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No not that one, not familiar with that book.
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13 Aug 2010 13:47 #5 by NJR
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It's by P B Hardy and has all the info on your first post!
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13 Aug 2010 13:58 #6 by carnaby
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Noel's book is by the LAAS. I would love to find out what that stands for, even their website doesn't tell you.:confused:

www.laasdata.com/

Only thing found was London Amateur Aviation Society, which doesn't look right.

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13 Aug 2010 14:29 #7 by Paul Francis
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Oh OK Noel, I had no idea, when was it published?
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13 Aug 2010 17:13 #8 by Peter Kirk
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I think I still have my old 1972 MAS British Airfield Guide - much scribbled and annotated on though. I did have another, later guide that was typed in columns and had different categories. Not much help as I don't think it survived two house moves and a wife questioning the number of books and maps I owned!
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13 Aug 2010 20:11 #9 by David Thompson
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I have the 1973 edition of the MAS British Isles Airfield Guide which has been , like many other AiX members I'm sure , responsible for my clocking up many miles visiting airfields the length and breadth of Britain and equally many miles of camera film too . A similar book was Airbase-98 published by Great Western Aviation , aka KJ Newbould of Nailsworth , Gloucester , which was a sort of updated version of the MAS book compiled by county which also listed farm strips and aviation museums . A Part 2 covering Scotland and Ireland was promised for September 1998 but I dont think it ever appeared nor , indeed , did a copy of Airbase-99 !
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14 Aug 2010 07:38 #10 by Dave Smith
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LAAS, I believe originally stood for London Aviation Society. I can't remember what the extra A represented, "Area" perhaps?

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