"William W. Plummer" wrote in message
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Maybe that's because many "fields" were used to land airships. They were
circular so wind direction didn't matter. It's hard to define a
"pattern"
for a circular field. Lakehurst NJ is still circular and is easily seen
from airliners heading to the JFK VOR from the south.


This was the day of the "all-ways" airfield. There were no runways at many
airfields, they were just open fields. Airplanes simply landed and took off
into the wind