I came upon this neat website when I was still living in Princeton, New Jersey: www.airfields-freeman.com
This is a good one, too. I thought it was fascinating that the old Pittsburgh airport terminal was just sitting there behind some chain link fencing, rotting.
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 26, 2018, 05:06:20 PM
This is a good one, too. I thought it was fascinating that the old Pittsburgh airport terminal was just sitting there behind some chain link fencing, rotting.
Interesting that you say that, as I was wondering about the condition(s) of the old Pittsburgh airport terminal myself.
Abandoned airfields are always a nice thing to discover while flying over on Google Earth.
Berlin's Tempelhof was converted into a public park, but lost of the infrastructure is left intact. Great place to bike around.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8bqT51XoAEi6Qc.jpg)
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Quote from: Bruce on November 26, 2018, 06:16:49 PM
Abandoned airfields are always a nice thing to discover while flying over on Google Earth.
Berlin's Tempelhof was converted into a public park, but lost of the infrastructure is left intact. Great place to bike around.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8bqT51XoAEi6Qc.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8bqnN7WAAE8qDn.jpg)
Ah, Berlin is on my/our bucket list. Thanks for sharing.
They turned Sandusky, OH's airport into a sports complex, but Google Earth seems to show some portions of the old runways still intact.
I found this a little while back, but it's always neat to stop back in and revisit it. I'm not a big flight enthusiast, but this stuff is pretty neat.
Quote from: kevinb1994 on November 26, 2018, 06:23:31 PMBerlin is on my/our bucket list. Thanks for sharing.
We hope to visit Berlin in the spring. When we took Queen Mary 2 to England last fall, there were a series of lectures on life in East Berlin/East Germany, and the pictures of present-day, reunified Berlin really made me want to visit.
Webpage with a lengthy story on the history of Baton Rouge Municipal Airport:
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/LA/Airfields_LA_BatonRouge.htm#downtown
That is a neat page. The layout isn't great, but I read some info on CT and RI.
Quote from: jon daly on November 28, 2018, 08:33:02 PM
That is a neat page. The layout isn't great, but I read some info on CT and RI.
I used it to read some info on NJ, NY, PA, CT, DE, and MD.
Quote from: kevinb1994 on November 28, 2018, 08:42:29 PM
Quote from: jon daly on November 28, 2018, 08:33:02 PM
That is a neat page. The layout isn't great, but I read some info on CT and RI.
I used it to read some info on NJ, NY, PA, CT, DE, and MD.
I was reading an article about the Oakland A's latest stadium proposal, looked up the area on Google Earth, saw an apparently abandoned airport nearby, and wondered what it was. Then I remembered this thread and the above link. The former Alameda Naval Air Base, among other names...