Little Oxhey Lane
Note: This map is only my estimation of this location. But close enough within the UK.
LITTLE OXHEY LANE: Temporary landing ground
Location: On the south side of Little Oxhey Lane bordered by the railway cutting, in/near Pinner at Carpenders Park
NOTES: I would highly recommend to anybody wishing to learn about the early years of post-WW2 light aviation, On Home-Made Wings by Arthur Ord-Hume. Nobody else, I am quite certain, has described this era in such superb detail. These were people with tremendous enthusiasm for flying, and not too concerned with the regulations and laws.
On page 117 Arthur describes how his great friend Paul went about trying to land his ‘home-built’ Aeronca C-3 G-AEVT in a suitable field near his and Arthurs home. "On the following Monday the Daily Mail told a story saying that a ‘plane had made a forced landing, but, after the pilot had ‘repaired’ the engine, it took off again." Hmmmm?
AD HOC LANDING SITES
In more recent years it is mainly helicopter pilots who indulge in a similar sort of activity, but those pilots with fixed wing aircraft of proven short field capabilities still sometimes indulge themselves. In the 1920s and 30s it was common practice to arrange such visits of course, usually without any permission deemed neccessary.
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