User Fees are coming closer to being very real

99% of all the airports we use today date from 1946 or
earlier. Most of those are WWII military training fields.



"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in
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news | In article
,
| Jose wrote:
|
| but the airports won't be threatened with closure if
GA is
| expanding and healthy.
|
| Sure they will. The economic forces are the same - even
a healthy GA
| population at a small airport that is in a
developmentally desirable
| area will not make enough money to fend this off.
Granted, healthy GA
| contributes economically many other ways, but those ways
are mostly
| hidden and indirect, making airports still an easy
target.
|
| Jose
|
| What we also have to remember is that real estate
developers represent
| the biggest political money contributors to state and
local elections in
| the US. As such, they get first ear of the politicians
whom they
| represent. The developers also create "noise sensitive"
groups to do
| their dirty work.
|
| We all have to remain vigilant and step on all the plans
to "make better
| use" of our local airport.

("Jim Macklin" wrote)
99% of all the airports we use today date from 1946 or earlier. Most of
those are WWII military training fields.


The first part seems plausible, the second part does not.


Montblack

During WWII there were NO environmental impact statements,
every military based needed auxiliary fields. The Air Corps
had one standard airport layout that could be flipped. It
was a triangle with buildings and a ramp on one side. These
were built all over the mid-west and great plains, many are
still in use as they were built, some have abandoned the
shorter diagonal runways. Some are in terrible condition
and some have had good maintenance.

Before WWII paved runways were rare, long runways were rare,
long distance airlines used seaplanes because runways were
not available world-wide. The USA built airports everywhere
during WWII, not just in the USA.

Sad fact is that part of our problem today is that there is
no local support for those military airports that were often
sold to the local city for $1.00.



--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Montblack" wrote in
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| ("Jim Macklin" wrote)
| 99% of all the airports we use today date from 1946 or
earlier. Most of
| those are WWII military training fields.
|
|
| The first part seems plausible, the second part does not.
|
|
| Montblack
|