Scotts Field
SCOTT'S FIELD: Temporary aerodrome
Operated by: Gustav Hamel
Location: W of the A193, roughly 0.5nm NNW of Whitely Bay centre
Period of operation: 3rd, then later 6th September 1913
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
As so often in this 'Guide', here once again we have Mike Holder to thank for both discovering this venue, and then providing the maps and pictures to illustrate the listing.
The Notice One was published in the Newcastle Journal on the 27th August 1913.
SOME ITEMS IN THE PRESS
The Notice Two was published in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle on the 2nd September 1913. The advert was published, also in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, but on the 5th September.
The Notice Three was published in the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette on the 2nd September.
The Article appeared in the Newcastle Daily Chronicle on the 4th September 1913.
The photo is of the Prudhoe Memorial Convalescent Home, courtesy of Newcastle Libraries.
These two pictures are from my Google Earth © derived database, Please not that by no means are all the flying sites listed in this 'Guide' pinned on my database. With now, (in 2025), over 7000 flying sites listed, in many areas it would just be a mass of yellow pins.
HOW TO DEFINE A DEFINITION?
This has been a constant problem in compiling this 'Guide', and in so many different ways. For example, in this case how does one describle the status of Gustave Hamel in those days? Very famous of course, but also, in modern terms, also very much a 'super star'. By comparison several other pioneer aviators achieved considerable fame in the U.K., but, not perhaps 'super star' status? What I have discovered over the years is that Gustav Hamel, (English despite his German sounding name), had become very attractive to young ladies. Indeed, it seems that large groups of them travelled around the country, from venue to venue, to swoon over their idol as he displayed with his aeroplane. A situation that, as far as I am aware, never occurred again after WW1.
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