Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:35 pm
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It is all there in the thread.
The airfield was run profitably by the flying club until Blanefield bought the lease on the field, took the canteen revenue, the landing fees, and the hangarage revenue and the lady who ran the airfield could no longer keep it solvent. It went downhill from there. The plan was always to have the housing estate so the infrastructure was allowed to decay.
Good people, many of whom who have become friends over the last few years will lose their livelihoods and those responsible will blame those elected councillors who wouldn't just roll over and rubber stamp all that luvverly council tax because they had higher motives.
It isn't just the greed - it is the vengeful nihilism that goes with it that Grenville
Hodge and Blanefield will be remembered for if this goes ahead.
To those who have helped me, fed me, made sense of my radio calls, kept the airwaves clear during the adventurous arrivals (a Pan and a MAYDAY, the latter before I had even gone solo,) taught me, tolerated me, laughed with me and encouraged me, I am ever gratefully in your collective debt. You know who you are. Good luck to you all. It has been a privilege beyond words or price to have flown from EGLS.
The airfield was run profitably by the flying club until Blanefield bought the lease on the field, took the canteen revenue, the landing fees, and the hangarage revenue and the lady who ran the airfield could no longer keep it solvent. It went downhill from there. The plan was always to have the housing estate so the infrastructure was allowed to decay.
Good people, many of whom who have become friends over the last few years will lose their livelihoods and those responsible will blame those elected councillors who wouldn't just roll over and rubber stamp all that luvverly council tax because they had higher motives.
It isn't just the greed - it is the vengeful nihilism that goes with it that Grenville
Hodge and Blanefield will be remembered for if this goes ahead.
To those who have helped me, fed me, made sense of my radio calls, kept the airwaves clear during the adventurous arrivals (a Pan and a MAYDAY, the latter before I had even gone solo,) taught me, tolerated me, laughed with me and encouraged me, I am ever gratefully in your collective debt. You know who you are. Good luck to you all. It has been a privilege beyond words or price to have flown from EGLS.
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