Let me take you down (from 15,000 feet), 'cause we're going to...
June 29, 2001 1:32 PM Subscribe
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]
I'm waiting for the Stevie Ray Vaugn Memorial Heliport
posted by bondcliff at 1:38 PM on June 29, 2001
posted by bondcliff at 1:38 PM on June 29, 2001
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?
posted by witchstone at 1:41 PM on June 29, 2001
posted by witchstone at 1:41 PM on June 29, 2001
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.
posted by Shadowkeeper at 1:45 PM on June 29, 2001
Does anyone know if there are any airports named after a woman?
Here's one.
posted by Shadowkeeper at 1:45 PM on June 29, 2001
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.
posted by witchstone at 1:52 PM on June 29, 2001
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.
posted by witchstone at 1:52 PM on June 29, 2001
There is an Amelia Earhart Airport but nobody seems to know where it is.
posted by bondcliff at 1:55 PM on June 29, 2001
posted by bondcliff at 1:55 PM on June 29, 2001
I've always thought that Wright Field was a reasonable name.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 1:59 PM on June 29, 2001
posted by Steven Den Beste at 1:59 PM on June 29, 2001
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.)
posted by holgate at 2:27 PM on June 29, 2001
(Great choice, Steven, since the Wrights' first flight was about as far as a pop-up into right field.)
posted by holgate at 2:27 PM on June 29, 2001
db cooper, john denver, payne stewart, buddy holly...
phew, I think I got most of them out of the way.
posted by machaus at 2:35 PM on June 29, 2001
phew, I think I got most of them out of the way.
posted by machaus at 2:35 PM on June 29, 2001
I think all airports should be named after Ronald Reagan. Even the ones in the heathen, foreign places. Like Tulsa.
posted by crunchland at 2:51 PM on June 29, 2001
posted by crunchland at 2:51 PM on June 29, 2001
Wouldn't that make reading airport departure boards a little, um, tricky?
posted by holgate at 2:58 PM on June 29, 2001
posted by holgate at 2:58 PM on June 29, 2001
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.
posted by dfowler at 3:27 PM on June 29, 2001
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.
posted by dfowler at 3:27 PM on June 29, 2001
The Matthew Haughey Regional Airport. Nothing less will do.
posted by o2b at 3:30 PM on June 29, 2001
posted by o2b at 3:30 PM on June 29, 2001
The MHRA is the exclusive home of Metafilter Airlines. "We love to MeFi, and it shows!"
posted by allaboutgeorge at 5:42 PM on June 29, 2001
posted by allaboutgeorge at 5:42 PM on June 29, 2001
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!
posted by ktheory at 6:49 PM on June 29, 2001
And how about an airport named after our favorite twins!
posted by ktheory at 6:49 PM on June 29, 2001
Wasn't the jet engine invented by ze Germans at BMW?
Um, no.
Newton & Leibniz come to mind.
posted by holgate at 7:01 PM on June 29, 2001
Um, no.
Newton & Leibniz come to mind.
posted by holgate at 7:01 PM on June 29, 2001
Dublin Airport doesn't seem to have a name but I don't think we're ready for Jack Charlton Airport.
posted by prolific at 1:37 AM on June 30, 2001
posted by prolific at 1:37 AM on June 30, 2001
allaboutgeorge: Hey, perhaps Matt could start up a Frequent Fi-ers club.
posted by davehat at 1:42 AM on June 30, 2001
posted by davehat at 1:42 AM on June 30, 2001
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.
posted by pracowity at 2:43 AM on June 30, 2001
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.
posted by pracowity at 2:43 AM on June 30, 2001
They should rename the Dallas Fort Worth Airport, "MEATLOAF." What a showman!
posted by ZachsMind at 3:24 AM on June 30, 2001
posted by ZachsMind at 3:24 AM on June 30, 2001
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?
posted by holgate at 6:29 AM on June 30, 2001
Isn't Schiphol getting its own brothel soon?
posted by holgate at 6:29 AM on June 30, 2001
> 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.
posted by pracowity at 3:29 AM on July 1, 2001
If these guys are right, the government rejected a brothel chain's proposal to open a branch there.
posted by pracowity at 3:29 AM on July 1, 2001
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