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Dvorak Dec 2020 10:31pm, 21 Dec 2020 21,619 posts	0 Dvorak The runway at the City of Cambridge Airport is only 4m shorter than that of the City of Derry Airport, meaning that it potentially could handle Boeing 737s, albeit at reduced capacity.
GlennR Dec 2020 10:33pm, 21 Dec 2020 54,823 posts	0 GlennR 737? 747s come, or came, into Cambridge regularly for servicing.
McGoohan Dec 2020 10:42pm, 21 Dec 2020 47,801 posts	0 McGoohan That there's an airport at Norwich
Dvorak Dec 2020 10:42pm, 21 Dec 2020 21,620 posts	0 Dvorak (I had a vague recollection that Cambridge might have been used for parking 747s during some hoo-ha - maybe the ash cloud?)
Fragile Glass Bauble Dec 2020 10:43pm, 21 Dec 2020 7,542 posts	0 Fragile Glass Bauble It amuses me that Lydd airport calls itself London Ashford Airport. lydd-airport.co.uk
Diogenes Dec 2020 10:46pm, 21 Dec 2020 55,977 posts	0 Diogenes [I always think of Lydd as a cycle racing venue]
jabberknitmas Dec 2020 10:48pm, 21 Dec 2020 3,776 posts	0 jabberknitmas In the late 70s/early 80s, on several occasions I flew from Leicester Airport to Hannover in Germany in a tiny plane for work-related purposes (trade fairs for flogging industrial woodworking machinery). I sat next to the driver on the way home on one of the trips, which was very exciting. Leicester Airport is essentially a field with a couple of big huts in it. It's next door to a Go-Carting venue.
Dvorak Dec 2020 10:56pm, 21 Dec 2020 21,621 posts	0 Dvorak In 2019, NWI handled about half a million passengers, or roughly half the numbers of either Inverness or Exeter; a tenth of Newcastle's. Nearly a third of Norwich's self-loading freight is to and from Amsterdam. (Cambridge's other local airport handled over 28 million.)
ding-dong-WtnMel-on-high Dec 2020 6:18am, 22 Dec 2020 1,891 posts	0 ding-dong-WtnMel-on-high Kemble Airport (nr. Cirencester; ex-home of Red Arrows) is used to break up planes including 747's - they were able to land there but there was not enough runway for them to take off again. Quite off-putting if you're unaware and come round a corner to have a huge 747 parked close to the perimeter fence beside the road
Hills of Death (HOD) Dec 2020 9:06am, 22 Dec 2020 35,283 posts	0 Hills of Death (HOD) The old guy in Vicar of Dibley is Daniel Peacock dad (Party Party, Porridge, Do it All lol)