Fallowfield
FALLOWFIELD: Temporary aerodrome
Operated by: Mr George A Barnes
Location: Roughly 2.5nm SE to SSE of Manchester city centre
Period of operation: 9th July 1910
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Here once again we have Mike Holder, a great long term friend of this 'Guide', to thank for discovering this little known but highly significant location. Plus providing the following items to illustrate the listing.
Photo One was published in the Manchester Evening News on the 11th July 1910. The Notice was published in the Manchester Evening News on the 23rd June 1910.
Photo Two appeared in Cycling on the 13th July 1910.
The article was published, also in the Manchester Evening News, but on the 8th July 1910. The local area and area views are from my Google Earth© derived database.
NOTES: The British were way behind in developing fixed-wing powered aeroplanes, especially compared to the French, and I find this period in history fascinating. For example, without much if any doubt we shall never know who made the first ever flight in a powered aeroplane? It most certainly was not the Wright brothers in 1903 - and they had a photographer on hand to prove it!
Yes, their machine was airborne, but only for a short 'hop' in ground effect. As so many others had achieved around that time, but knowing that such 'hops' cannot be regarded as flights, and they never claimed them to be. I can get my car 'airborne' by driving over a humpty-back bridge at high speed, and if going fast enough might well equal that 'hop' by the Wright brothers!
A flight is easy to define. It is when an aeroplane climbs away from ground effect and can then be exercised in all three axis. Climbing, turning and descending. Just like a first solo flight even today.
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