HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoAn "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runwaylemmy.mlimagemessage-square241fedilinkarrow-up1973arrow-down131file-text
arrow-up1942arrow-down1imageAn "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runwaylemmy.mlHiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square241fedilinkfile-text
Location on a map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-88.5628734&zoom=17#map=17/42.14861/-88.56287
minus-squaresmitty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoHere’s a nice big one just south of Daytona Beach https://www.google.com/maps/@29.0625058,-81.0461691,1579a,35y,359.1h,44.09t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
minus-squarebobs_monkey@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-21 year agoHere’s one I was thinking of near Ocala, FL, I believe John Travolta has/had a place there: 29.2747779, -82.1204260 And another one in Yucca Valley, CA: 34.1289163, -116.4077455
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoWhoa. That area has things that look like roads, but are extended taxiways from the homes to the runway. For the early-alphabet taxiways there’s a clear distinction between the public roads and the taxiways. The roads end in dead-ends before the runways, and the taxiways end in dead-ends before the roads. But, when you get to taxiway echo, it actually crosses Spruce Creek Blvd. So, you could be slowing down to a stop sign, only to see a plane taxi across the road in front of you. I wonder how often cars end up on that taxiway by accident.
Here’s a nice big one just south of Daytona Beach
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.0625058,-81.0461691,1579a,35y,359.1h,44.09t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
Here’s one I was thinking of near Ocala, FL, I believe John Travolta has/had a place there:
29.2747779, -82.1204260
And another one in Yucca Valley, CA:
34.1289163, -116.4077455
Whoa. That area has things that look like roads, but are extended taxiways from the homes to the runway. For the early-alphabet taxiways there’s a clear distinction between the public roads and the taxiways. The roads end in dead-ends before the runways, and the taxiways end in dead-ends before the roads.
But, when you get to taxiway echo, it actually crosses Spruce Creek Blvd. So, you could be slowing down to a stop sign, only to see a plane taxi across the road in front of you. I wonder how often cars end up on that taxiway by accident.