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1929
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FLIGHT, JUNE 6, 1929 PRIVATE FLYING A Section of FLIGHT in the Interests of the Private Owner, Owner-Pilot, and Club Member LONDON S NEW PRIVATE AERODROME Heston Air Park Nearly Completed THE aerodrome plans of Airwork, Ltd., which FLIGHTdetailed last October, are now nearing completionat the Heston site close to Hounslow, Middlesex. Heston Air Park, as it is definitely styled, is now a fixedand distinct landmark on that flat country off the Great West Road about 10 miles west of London. You can at onceobserve the fine potentialities of this site and its surrounding country for constant aircraft traffic, and with what shrewdjudgment and vision the directors of Airwork, Ltd., have prepared it. It is alone a remarkable fact that such a siteshould have been found within so short a distance of London in view of the long and extensive building developmentsradiating in all directions from the city. The locality surrounding the Heston aerodrome will, asfar as one can visualise, preserve its advantageous openness and flatness, thereby attaching, as it were, so much usefularea to the actual landing field. A landing from almost any direction should hardly tax the skill of even the amateurThere is, incidentally, a tall and fascinating factory chimney some distance to the north for the pilot who must hit theonly obstruction within sight, as so humorously expressed in Mr. Ernest Noble's drawing in a recent issue of FLIGHT. The surface of the aerodrome is exceptionally smooth tothe eye and seems to maintain its evenness over the whole area. One or two bumps which adorned it originally have been satupon. •' "' •"•""•'•••" "'" •••-"•*-••"•;-—;.--'—--.-:-;^-—_- ..- . —-_., .__.:^,,: • -::::._ L"FLIGHT" Photograph HESTON AIR PARK : (Top) On the left is the building which will contain a restaurant, club rooms, offices, and everything for the social amenities of the aerodrome. On the right is the large hangar which w»> have Esavian doors. (Middle) One of the lock-up garages which contains 20 lock-ups. The machine is * Airwork, Ltd., Gipsy-Moth, fitted with Handley Page slots. (Below) Interior of lock-up garage showing the sliding doors which are fitted throughout. They slide round the side of each lock-up when pulled open. 464 ...... .- . . .. . .„..
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