Croydon Airport, near London, was once the gateway to Europe, opening up commercial air travel and breaking world records. But after a lifetime of glamor, hosting notables such as Charlie Chaplin, ...
A wooden structure built 15 feet off the ground in 1920s South London revolutionized the airspace industry. It was the world’s first air traffic control tower, commissioned at Croydon Airport, the U.K ...
The words “Croydon” and “destination” are not what you’d call soulmates. “I’m certain that of all the places I’ve visited,” writes Tom Chesshyre in “To Hull and Back,” a travelog that sets out to ...
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The number of commercial flights rapidly increased after World War One, leading the British government demanding a way of managing the skies. The first air traffic control tower was established inside ...
It was an experiment, really: a tiny wooden hut on skinny stilts, overlooking the grass runway of Croydon Airport – staffed by a handful of military veterans with no formal air traffic training. Not ...
Built in 1920, the airport was especially pertinent during World War II, before it was bombed in 1940 in one of the first ...
This story was told by Anthony P Turner and recorded onto the website by Claire Frances Malyon, at the ARC in York on Wednesday 30th of June, 2004. Croydon Airport in Surrey was the first London ...
The 75th anniversary of the first solo flight made from Britain to Australia, by Queensland-born aviator "Bert" Hinkler, was marked by the visit of another Queenslander, the Australian Deputy High ...
In 1940 when Roy was 10 years old he lived in Mitchum not far from Croydon Airport. He was out playing on the street with some friends at about 5.30 in the afternoon. Suddenly out of the clouds and ...