The 1920s proposal to build an airport in Hyde Park

Did you know that Hyde Park should be an airport? Yes, really! Because a century ago, when London was smaller and planes even more so, there was a semi-serious attempt to build an airport on Hyde Park.
You what!?
Complaints that London’s sole international airport, at Croydon, was too far from central London and too inconvenient for busy people to schlep all the way down there for a flight spurred the idea of a more central airport.
In October 1926, it was reported that Lord Apsley MP prop