Oh ! Those starfighters, I remember them well. My mother’s house in Mossblown was in the flight path, she actually got double glazing fitted FOC as the house was “ in the zone”
One day a Starfighter broke the sound barrier I take it when coming into land. It scared the hell out me. At one of the air shows me and my brother got too close to one and was “requested “ to move back.
Do you remember Concorde being stranded on the main runway overnight. It damaged the front landing gear and had to be supported until engineers came up from a London.
Prestwick Airport has only been closed twice to my knowledge, the Concorde incident with the second being a Ryanair 737 which overshot the runway while taxiing. It almost made it out onto the main road out of Prestwick.
Could never understand why it wasn’t developed more as unlike Glasgow and Edinburgh it has a direct rail link to the terminal. Prestwick is also fog free and has been used for several emergencies.
I remember once when most of the European airports were fog bound and all the Jumbos were put down at Prestwick awaiting new slots to their destination.
One day a Starfighter broke the sound barrier I take it when coming into land. It scared the hell out me. At one of the air shows me and my brother got too close to one and was “requested “ to move back.
Do you remember Concorde being stranded on the main runway overnight. It damaged the front landing gear and had to be supported until engineers came up from a London.
Prestwick Airport has only been closed twice to my knowledge, the Concorde incident with the second being a Ryanair 737 which overshot the runway while taxiing. It almost made it out onto the main road out of Prestwick.
Could never understand why it wasn’t developed more as unlike Glasgow and Edinburgh it has a direct rail link to the terminal. Prestwick is also fog free and has been used for several emergencies.
I remember once when most of the European airports were fog bound and all the Jumbos were put down at Prestwick awaiting new slots to their destination.