Airports provide an essential infrastructure for the production of airspace by facilitating networks of aero mobility. This study considers the case of Lydda airport in Mandatory Palestine. Promoted in the 1930's as a hub for British civil aviation on its India route, Lydda airport is largely absent from the inter-war history of civil aviation although the site would become the location of the present-day Ben-Gurion International Airport. The study finds that while British decision-makers initially trumped the attempts of Jewish settlers to locate the country's inter-continental airport in Tel-Aviv rather than at Lydda, sustained pressure and an anti-colonial Arab Revolt compromised that decision. The tension between imperial trans-continental priorities and domestic ambitions were translated in Palestine into two separate and partially competing neighbouring airports.

机场通过促进航空机动网络，为生产空域提供了必要的基础设施。本研究以托管巴勒斯坦的吕达机场为例。吕达机场在 1930 年代被提升为英国民航在其印度航线上的枢纽，尽管该地点将成为当今本古里安国际机场的所在地，但它在两次大战之间的民航历史中基本上没有出现。研究发现，虽然英国决策者最初战胜了犹太定居者在特拉维夫而不是吕达设立该国洲际机场的尝试，但持续的压力和反殖民的阿拉伯起义损害了这一决定。