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Ric

Posted 2009-10-10 12:09 PM (#31465)

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Subject: Now, this is pretty strange

http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2009/gibraltarairport.htm

Any you guys seen this on a Med cruise?

chiefjoe

Posted 2009-10-13 8:01 AM (#31536 - in reply to #31465)

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Posts: 188

Location: Manassas, VA

Subject: RE: Now, this is pretty strange

Funny thing is, Washington, DC used to have this problem. Before Washington National (now Wawshington Ronald Regan) there was Hoover field. It was where the pentagon now is located. State highway 110 crossed the active runway.

The Airport supervisor installed a stop light on 110, controlled from the tower. Well the local police arrested him and did not release him until he agreed to remove it, as he did not have the authority to control traffic (or at least not to install the stop light). (I know, politics should not be discussed here, but like this ALL POLITICS 5uc).

Just a moment from the past.

Chiefjoe

Doc Gardner

Posted 2009-10-13 8:12 AM (#31537 - in reply to #31465)

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Location: Foothills of the Ozarks

Subject: RE: Now, this is pretty strange

A friend of mine is a pilot for Delta and he was telling me that they are not allowed to fly from Gibraltar to Spain directly so they have to fly out over the Atlantic and enter Portuguese air space and get permission to enter Spain from Portugual since the Spanish and English are still disputing who owns Gibraltar.
Truth is stranger than fiction

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