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Post number 8702

holgate — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:32:09 -0800

Let me take you down (from 15,000 feet), 'cause we're going to... be landing at John Lennon Airport. The renaming ceremony for Liverpool's airport takes place on Monday. So, who else deserves an airport named after them? [more]

By: holgate

holgate — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:36:18 -0800

One of my pet wishes is for Heathrow to be renamed in honour of Frank Whittle: the man whose invention keeps the place in business. Better than naming it after a retired politician, anyway. Anyone else want to rename their local airport?

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:38:33 -0800

I'm waiting for the Stevie Ray Vaugn Memorial Heliport

By: witchstone

witchstone — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:41:25 -0800

Does anyone know if there are any airports named after a woman? I'd like to see an Amelia Earhart airport somewhere...or would that scare people?

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:45:48 -0800

Maybe there is a Amelia Earhart airport somewhere. Perhaps that's where she landed. Does anyone know if there are any airports named after a woman? Here's one.

By: witchstone

witchstone — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:52:49 -0800

Thanks shadowkeeper, somehow I had the feeling that if there was one, it was in India. Maybe because I was recently reading about Indira Gandhi. Have you heard about that American guy who claims he saw Amelia Earhart's plane on a Japanese island in the Pacific during WWII? He's claiming that there's a big government conspiracy, of course. Yeah, he's probably a crackpot, but it's kind of fun reading.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:55:43 -0800

There is an Amelia Earhart Airport but nobody seems to know where it is.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:59:59 -0800

I've always thought that Wright Field was a reasonable name.

By: holgate

holgate — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:27:47 -0800

Wright Field: ideal for those 120-foot commutes. (Great choice, Steven, since the Wrights' first flight was about as far as a pop-up into right field.)

By: machaus

machaus — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:35:10 -0800

db cooper, john denver, payne stewart, buddy holly... phew, I think I got most of them out of the way.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:51:52 -0800

I think all airports should be named after Ronald Reagan. Even the ones in the heathen, foreign places. Like Tulsa.

By: holgate

holgate — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:58:55 -0800

Wouldn't that make reading airport departure boards a little, um, tricky?

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:12:15 -0800

Stephin Merritt Airport?

By: riffola

riffola — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:26:11 -0800

Paul McCartney International Airport :)

By: dfowler

dfowler — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:27:04 -0800

holgate: Funny you should mention Sir Frank Whittle. He retired to my neighborhood in Maryland until his death. A nice old man, with wispy white hair and an accent that was difficult for us kids to decipher. Always willing to bend our ears with stories of flight, though. A friend of mine did a series of interviews with Sir Frank for a high school project. I wonder what's become of them. They're probably pretty interesting. Thanks for the post -- nice memories.

By: o2b

o2b — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:30:31 -0800

The Matthew Haughey Regional Airport. Nothing less will do.

By: allaboutgeorge

allaboutgeorge — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:42:27 -0800

The MHRA is the exclusive home of Metafilter Airlines. "We love to MeFi, and it shows!"

By: ktheory

ktheory — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:49:40 -0800

How can Frank Whittle be "the father of the jet engine"? Wasn't the jet engine invented by ze Germans at BMW? And how about an airport named after our favorite twins!

By: holgate

holgate — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:01:42 -0800

Wasn't the jet engine invented by ze Germans at BMW? Um, no. Newton & Leibniz come to mind.

By: skallas

skallas — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:50:51 -0800

Why the Baron Manfred von Richthofen memorial airport would sit well with me. They could serve Red Baron pizzas and sell little WWI biplanes planes to kids. I'm also wlling to settle for the le petite rouge memorial airport.

By: davehat

davehat — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 01:09:06 -0800

Ronald Reagan Starport.

By: prolific

prolific — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 01:37:08 -0800

Dublin Airport doesn't seem to have a name but I don't think we're ready for Jack Charlton Airport.

By: davehat

davehat — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 01:42:49 -0800

allaboutgeorge: Hey, perhaps Matt could start up a Frequent Fi-ers club.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 02:43:41 -0800

Eventually they will all be owned by corporations like Citicorp and will not even have the word "airport" in their names. "We are now approaching LifeHaven Chicago." Marketing boys will insist that these places are "personal escape zones" or the like, with even more emphasis on the "experience" -- shopping, pools, daycare, massage, psychotherapy, the supposed purging and cleansing treatments of alternative health, but then on to eating, drinking, gabbing, gambling, banking, bonking, and bunking. A little beeper badge handed to you upon arrival will warn you when it is time to start making your way to the gate, though if you're the sort who likes Disney World but with whisky and whores, you won't want to leave.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 03:24:42 -0800

They should rename the Dallas Fort Worth Airport, "MEATLOAF." What a showman!

By: holgate

holgate — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 06:29:24 -0800

A little beeper badge handed to you upon arrival will warn you when it is time to start making your way to the gate, though if you're the sort who likes Disney World but with whisky and whores, you won't want to leave. Isn't Schiphol getting its own brothel soon?

By: pracowity

pracowity — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 03:29:46 -0800

> Isn't Schiphol getting its own brothel soon? If these guys are right, the government rejected a brothel chain's proposal to open a branch there.