£30,000,000 AIRPORT
TERMINAL AT BLACKPOOL LONDON, Oct. 1. Plans ;for what promises to be the most comprehensive and best equipped air terminal in the world at Blackpool, North England, have been approved by the British A.r Ministry. The estimated cost of the airport is .e3o.otiu.ooo and it will have ;l capacity tor 50,000 passengers daily on day and night services to all purls ot the' globe. It will have a triangular lavou. with three exterior runways to' trans-ocean traffic, the largest s(’oe yards long and each capable of taking twice the weight of to-day's heaviest transport planes. Within' the main Iriangle there will bo three smaller runways—one of them 207 a yards long—for Continental and feeder-line traffic, and the transfer oi passengers from one air service to another with the minimum of delay is thus ensured. , An underground road and ran tunnel links the aircraft terminal to a lagoon four miles in diameter for vhe use of (lying-boats. This is part w Ihe British planning for post-wni civil aviation in which Great Britain i is expected to occupy a nodal position.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21548, 30 October 1944, Page 4
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181£30,000,000 AIRPORT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21548, 30 October 1944, Page 4
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