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Posted by DAN9-Midwest on November 15, 2006 at 03:29:00 from (67.142.130.14):
In Reply to: Pilots-airplanes-landing strips posted by coflyboy on November 14, 2006 at 15:09:35:
Years ago my neghbor in another place decided to build a runway for a medium-sized propeller plane. It was a grand idea. Seven years later and way over budget it was completed. It was a fine runway with a nice pond and several built-up portions to level the rolling ground. The biggest problem was mowing the thing and the futile attempts to prevent countless dozens of "pilots" from practicing, as well as actually landing, their approach on his runway despite several banners and "X's" that said don't do it. Even a huge military jumbo-something did a practice approach and rattled windows for maybe two miles around. It was endless and a daily occurance. The runway owner said he regretted things and said he should never have built it. We moved. Several years later he moved. End of story.
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