Horfield
HORFIELD: Temporary aerodrome for exhibition flying
Note: Aka Buffalo Bill's Field
Operated by: Bentfield C Hucks
Location: Just E of the A38, roughly 2.5nm N of Bristol city centre
Period of operation: 8th to 11th April 1914
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
We have Mike Holder, a great friend of this 'Guide', for both discovering this location and providing the following items.
The entry from Wikipedia is about 'Buffalo Bill's Field' where this event took place.
This Article One, in four parts, was published in the Western Daily Press on the 9th April 1914. Photo One, from the Bristol Archives shows B C Hucks inverted at the top of a loop.
Photo Two, of B C Hucks in the south-east corner of Buffalo Bill's Field, is also from the Bristol Archives.
The Article Two, in two parts, was published in the Bristol Times and Mirror on the 13th April 1914. Photo Three is also from the Bristol Archives.
NOTES: It has often amused me, (I'm easily pleased), to read in early accounts, in the UK at least, how reporters described aerobatics. Typically 'gymnastics in the air', 'aerial acrobatics' etc. As in the two articles above.
It appears that the term aerobatics to describe these manouevres, was first suggested in the Aeroplane magazine in 1914. Perhaps drawing on the knowledge that in the early years of powered aviation it was the French who led the field, especially the Aero Club de France with their HQ on the Champs Elysees in the centre of Paris.
It was the French who coined the term aerodrome for a place where flying took place. And indeed several other terms they 'invented' are still in use in aviation, such as hangar, fuselage, nacelle, empennage and aileron.
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