Hi Harry

There are a couple of small airstrips near us, one at Bellevue on the way to Torrington, and the other at Eaglescot near the Burrington radar, around 10 and 20 miles away respectively. We can fly models at Eaglescot too. I'll have to see if either or both have jet fuel, but I guess that's unlikely. Exeter is 60 miles away, so not really worth the time, effort and expense involved in getting there and back for maybe 5 gallons of avtur.

When I was based at RAF Innsworth and living in Churchdown about 7 years ago, you probably used to take off over our house! If you were in the Spitfire, you're forgiven, but if you were flying those rattly noisy old Pipers and Cessnas that had such a struggle to clear our house at about 30mph groundspeed due to both the wind, and the fact that Churchdown is way uphill from Staverton so the planes had to be on climbing power for ages, you're not

Regards

Gordon