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DavidGrain said:
I had not realised that the Air Terminal in Easy at the side of the Civic Centre (now called Baskerville House) was designated as a temporary building. As a child of that era, to me 'pre-fab' buildings were part of normal life.
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Agree, did not consider them anything but. In retrospect they were a great idea for the time & place. I just wonder in today’s world how long it would to get something like that. In the US we would need at least three committees!
 
A couple of poor-quality half-tone press photos from Elmdon airport's opening on a rainy 8th July 1939.

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One of the huge, new four-engined Armstrong Whitworth Ensign airliners (G-ADSW "Eddystone" of Imperial Airways) put in an appearance.

A W Ensign

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Despite the rain, a unit of Navy Blackburn Skuas put on a display of dive-bombing, followed by a low-level attack on a dummy submarine conning tower set up on the airfield. Perhaps a little too low, because the same tactic led to the loss of a couple of Skuas only two months later when they were brought down by the blast of their own bombs when attacking a German Submarine in the Atlantic.

The Sinking of the Fanad Head in WW2

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