Lydd Airport
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Lydd Airport by Richard Sutcliffe as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Richard Sutcliffe Taken: 5 Nov 1979
Passengers embark onto a Dan Air flight from Lydd to Beauvais in France. Before the plane took off, an engineer came up to the wing and gave it several hard taps with a hammer. Not the best start to the photographer's first flight across the Channel. Exact position approximate.
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