Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Departed Connecticut Airports

I bought a 1977 edition of FlightGuide in a used bookstore a little while ago. I compared the listing of airports in one small state, Connecticut, with the listing in the current edition of the Airport/Facility Directory.

These are the airports that are no longer there:

Ansonia
Burlington (Johnnycake)
Griswold (Lakeside)
Madison (Griswold)
South Woodstock (Woodstock)
Waterford (New London)

Burlington and Madison closed recently. Madison is (or was before the credit crunch) going to be developed into a housing project of some kind. Burlington closed when the owner of the property raised the rent by a factor of ten.

Waterford is a sad case. That airport closed over 20 years ago and nothing has been done to the property since. At least one of the developers has gone bankrupt (serves them right).

Not all news is bad, as there were two airports not in FlightGuide which are in the A/FD:

Candlelight Farms
Toutant (Putnam)

I don't know if they were in existence back then, just that they were not listed.

Still, in the northwest corner of the state, there are no public use airports. If the concept of revitalizing General Aviation with "light sport" aircraft is going to work, we need places to land them.

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