Edinburgh Airport Through Time
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A01=Peter C. Brown
Aeronautics & Aerospace Engineering
Aerospace & Aviation Technology
Art Architecture & Photography
Author_Peter C. Brown
Aviation
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-WQ
Category=WQP
COP=United Kingdom
Cultural History
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eq_nobargain
Flying
Format=BC
HMM=234
IMPN=Amberley Publishing
ISBN13=9781445615370
Local & Urban History
PA=Available
PD=20131015
Photography
Planes
POP=Chalford
Price=19.21
PS=Active
PUB=Amberley Publishing
Subject=Local Interest- Family History & Nostalgia
Transport
WG=305
WMM=165
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- ISBN 9781445615370
- Weight: 305g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2013
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The land around Turnhouse Farm was converted to a military airfield in 1916 following a Zeppelin attack on Edinburgh. Known as RAF Turnhouse after 1918, the site served as a base for fighter squadrons defending Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh Corporation first expressed interest in February 1944 in operating civilian flights from Turnhouse after the war and in 1946 British European scheduled the first flight between Edinburgh and London. Turnhouse officially opened as a civil airport in 1949 but the site was not fully demilitarised until 1960. Passenger numbers began to increase and in 1976 a new runway was built. Between 1983 and 1984 passenger numbers at Edinburgh exceeded 1 million; for the twelve months to November 2007, they exceeded 9 million. In this book, Peter C. Brown tells the story of Edinburgh Airport using a collection of period and modern images.
Peter C. Brown is a freelance writer, online journal editor and writes for several websites. He was born in Prittlewell in 1959 and has lived in Southend-on-Sea most of his life, and has previously written books for Amberley on Shoreham and Edinburgh airports.
