Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:33 pm
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James Chan wrote:He even talks of all airfields being built by the tax-payer. How far out of touch is he?
Well, as far as I know many were indeed funded and built using taxpayers' money, but for military use. ...
not all for military use. The extension to the Filton runway was enabled by compulsory purchase with taxpayer money, and included demolition of a village. This was to enable the flying of a (government-supported) civil aircraft, the Brabazon, by Bristol (then a private company). The company was part of the (government-pressured) merger which formed BAC, which was then further merged through nationalisation into BAe. At privatisation, the freehold of the entire site passed to BAe shareholders. The runway is now being wholly redeveloped; even the emergency services helicopter operations were evicted.
If the runway extension, to which the community arguably had a moral right, had been retained for aviation use, it might have been enough to support continuing GA actvity
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