Greens Farm
Note: This map only gives a rough location within the UK. If anybody can provide a more exact location, this advice will be most welcome.
GREENS FARM: Temporary flying site
Location: On the Allesley Old Road. This could well be the A4114 today, but either way Allesley is situated 3nm NW of Coventry city centre
NOTES: Regarded as being the ‘first and official’ flying site in the Coventry area (fixed wing of course) when Bentfield C Hucks gave a flying display with, (they’d have said ‘on’ in those days), a Blériot monoplane; 27th July 1912. As pointed out elsewhere the prospect in those days of even seeing an aeroplane, let alone seeing it fly, would normally attract huge crowds. Plus, B C Hucks had by then acquired ‘super-star’ status as one of Britain’s most excellent pilots. He was indeed the first British pilot to perform a loop.
It is perhaps difficult to appreciate today that an event like this could attract numbers of spectators that even big air shows today would envy. And, it now appears, air shows today attract far larger numbers per year than football matches.
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