Eddystone Lighthouse
EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE: Balloon sighting (Sent by Maurice J Wickstead)
In more later years, a helipad on the latest lighthouse.
NOTES: I had to include this because this sighting has so many ramifications regarding reports pertinent to so much of aviation history.
On the night of 28th/29th November 1870 a French balloon was sighted drifting westwards towards the Lizard and hailed by two local fishing sloops. It seems to have been the ‘Jacguard’ escaping from the siege of Paris by the Prussians. Disappearing without trace, two mailbags washed ashore weeks later on the Lizard peninsular.
A helicopter landing on the present day EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE
As far as I can make out, the modern EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE has been unmanned for many years. But, it does have a helipad to enable maintenance staff to arrive. The picture was 'captured' from the interweb.
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