Old travel Blog photograph of cars outside the Terminal Building at Glasgow Prestwick Airport north east of the town of Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland. The airport began life around 1934 primarily as a training airfield. A hangar, offices, and a control tower were constructed by the end of 1935. The airport's original owner was David Fowler McIntyre, also the owner of Scottish Aviation, with backing from the Duke of Hamilton. MacIntyre and Hamilton were the first aviators to fly over Mount Everest in 1933. In 1938 passenger facilities were added. In 1945, regular transatlantic commercial flights began between Prestwick and New York, America. It was initially the only Scottish airport allowed to operate a transatlantic link, largely due to the benign weather conditions on the Ayrshire coast. Having a much lower incidence of fog than any other airport in the United Kingdom due to a geographical anomaly. Glasgow Prestwick Airport is the only place in the United Kingdom where Elvis Presley was known to have set foot, when the United States Air Force transport plane carrying him home stopped to refuel in 1960, en route from Germany. Glasgow Prestwick is now Scotland's fifth busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic, after Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow Airport, Aberdeen Airport, and Inverness Airport, although it is the largest in terms of land area
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.
No comments:
Post a Comment