Herne Bay
Note: This map only gives the position of Herne Bay within the UK.
HERNE BAY see also BROOMFIELD
HERNE BAY see also SWALECLIFFE
HERNE BAY see also UNDERDOWN FARM
HERNE BAY: Civil aerodrome
Charter/air taxi: Pre 1940: Stallard Airways
Pleasure flights: Post 1945: East Anglian Flying Services
Location: Possibly same site as BROOMFIELD?
Period of operation: 1921 to 1946 only?
NOTES: In 1946 Squadron Leader R J ‘Jack’ Jones operated pleasure flights with a De Havilland DH.80A Puss Moth registered G-AEOA trading as East Anglian Flying Services. This small enterprise later became Channel Airways after moving to SOUTHEND in 1947.
HERNE BAY: Temporary flying site
Note: Picture scanned from the AAIB report EW/C2016/08/03
Location: Along the beach front
Period of operation: 14th August 2016
NOTES: This site is just one example of many coastal locations where air-shows are held to entertain the crowds during the summer. Notable on this occassion when one of three Tiger Club Druine D.31 Turbulents (G-ARNZ) suffered engine failure when a piece of a balloon it had just burst became lodged in the carburettor, and, when it ditched in shallow water just off the beach the aircraft flipped inverted trapping the pilot.
By sheer good fortune members of the public rushed into the water to rescue the pilot and had the aircraft righted in about twenty seconds. Had the pilot ditched in deeper water it is fairly certain that he would have drowned as he was wearing a lifejacket totally unsuitable for use in aircraft in as much as it automatically inflated when in contact with water. The effect being to trap the pilot in his upturned cockpit, despite it being an open cockpit.
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