ORIGINAL: Gordon W
Hi Harry
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
A Piper or Cessna!!! Heaven forfend, spit spit. Horrid horrid spam cans with no handling and abysmal lack of a view out of them. I fly proper planes, Robin or Beagle Pup, with real handling and aerobatic capability
The Spitfire was sold to someone in the USA. The chap who owned it at Staverton made his money by being the inventor of the "widget" in beer cans!
Eaglescott has jet fuel though the price is upped a little bit, see
http://www.eaglescott-airfield.com/html/facilities.html
A lot of little airfields that don't have jet planes actually do have jets because of turbine helicopters so they need to keep jet fuel to attract the helis.
Harry