Talk:National Flying Services

Use of terms - landing ground/aerodrome/airfield/airport
The article contains various instances of the word 'airport'. I suggest that 'airport' is inappropriate as a term for mostly small grass airfields that were mainly used for 'general aviation' (modern term), eg for private flying, training, etc. The definition for an airport might be an airfield from which regular air transportation of passengers or freight is conducted to or from another airfield similarly defined. Perhaps only Yeadon airport was the only one of the seven featured airfields that might just qualify as an airport in the 1930s ? (BTW Sherburn-in-Elmet is the correct spelling for that proposed NFS centre, and perhaps "Hampton Park" (against G-AAPN in table) should read "Hanworth Air Park", per the ASN ref.). Comments welcome.PeterWD (talk) 10:27, 8 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that – I’ve made the two corrections you suggest at the end – they were just due to my slip-ups. As to the substance of your comment, it seems that the nomenclature, particularly in these early days of aviation, was fluid – and you didn’t mention ‘’landing stations’’ quoted from an NFS advert! For example, Blackpool Municipal Airport was also called Stanley Park Aerodrome. Perhaps applying today’s definitions to these early airfields is inappropriate. I do my best to apply the names used at the time, but they can be confusing. Anyway – I do take your point that Airport is too grandiose for the general NFS scheme, so I’m replacing the word with Airfield. Lestocq (talk) 14:56, 8 December 2021 (UTC)