[Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg

[Andrew Clegg]

Maybe I'm weird (ok, definitely I'm weird), but I would love to live next to an airport. The bigger the better and the closer the better. I've thought about moving into one of those condos in Crystal City that looks out over DCA.  Or a small house right under the approach path to Dulles runway 1R. Watch 747s and A380s fly right overhead every afternoon, that would be awesome.
You want to see some real awesomeness, search for St. Marten plane landing videos on YouTube.
73,Andy(Aeronautical mobile 36,000 feet over Iowa, Virgin America flight #2)
> From: ka8ypy at verizon.net
> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 16:53:09 -0500
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg
> 
> While it might not be forced to close, they could do what happened to the nations oldest and continually operational airport (College Park) and restrict the hours of operations.
> 
> -Dan
> 
> On Dec 8, 2014, at 4:20 PM, John Wilson <w4uvv at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > :-) Marketing what.. a nice lot on which to build your dream home and located close to an airport? "Airpark" to me implies a unique aviation facility where the area's affluent population can use and store their private aircraft or welcome their affluent flying friends. Regardless, those complaining residents basically have two choices as that airport will not be closed...too much money and politics are involved.  The first choice is shut up and endure and the second is shut up and move if they can afford to which most cannot.  If not relocating is not an option then the first choice applies.  They knew the risks and dangers of living near any airport anywhere.. Metro DC residents just have been very lucky for the past 60+ years that more private aircraft, which include the experimenters, have not crashed in a populated area.  I am sorry for the deaths of the crash victims and possible inured residents of the house it crashed into but I do not have any sympathy for those who
>   chose to live near an airport.  The law of averages finally happened as it eventually will.
> > 
> > John
> > .
> > Ed Tobias wrote:
> >> Marketing. Just like the county's "equestrian park" in Boyd's. I call it a stable.
> >> 
> >> Ed
> >> 
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >> 
> >>> On Dec 8, 2014, at 3:44 PM, John Wilson <w4uvv at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> What is the difference between and airpark and an airport excluding the difference in spelling?
> >>> 
> >>> John
> >>> 
> >>> Dewey3 wrote:
> >>>> The point is still made... airpark first, houses came along later.  Yet,
> >>>> those who moved in near an airpark suddenly have a problem with the airpark
> >>>> being "so close"
> >>>> 
> >>>> Dewey
> >>>> On Dec 8, 2014 3:00 PM, "Doug Kitchener via Scan-DC" <
> >>>> scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> correction, airpark opened 1960... sorry about that... I was thinking of
> >>>>> Davis over in Laytonsville that opened in 1949.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>>> From: Doug Kitchener via Scan-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> >>>>>> To: "scan-dc at mailman.qth.net" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> >>>>>> Cc:
> >>>>>> Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 2:36 PM
> >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Right across the main road from where I live... I was on the way to work
> >>>>> and had
> >>>>>> stopped in the Dunkin donuts down near the other end of the airpark...
> >>>>> large
> >>>>>> black column of smoke.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Airpark opened in 1949 - houses there were built in the 1980s... people
> >>>>>> interviewed are already yelling about the airpark.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Ch 9 had good coverage on their website, I haven't looked anywhere
> >>>>> else...
> >>>>>> at least 3 on the plane were killed.  Last I heard, it sounded like FD
> >>>>>> hadn't made entry into the house yet.
> > 
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