Aircraft

glatt · 02-19-2019, 04:31 PM

No wonder cars were so popular then. Just look at how empty the road is. I bet it was fun to drive.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-20-2019, 02:09 AM

Driving 2 miles to the center of town, meeting another car was unusual, then in the off hours, for 4 miles out of town I'd probably meet a car or two but it wasn't unusual to not meet another car.

Undertoad · 02-21-2019, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Just look at how empty the road is. I bet it was fun to drive.

It is a tangent but dang yes. Every car commercial ever is a fun windy twisty road...

disclaimer: closed course professional driver do not attempt

...and there are no other cars on it and no lights and you just haul off and enjoy. The actual experience is like that on approximately 1 out of every 365 trips.

In fact you could only get that experience regularly if you were on closed courses and were a professional driver.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-21-2019, 07:36 AM

Not these days in most places, but I think glatt was referring to the 50's and 60's, and he's right about a lot less traffic and easier to find the road less traveled.

glatt · 02-21-2019, 08:46 AM

Yeah. I was referring to there being fewer cars on the road back then. Fewer people in the country, and people didn't have 2-3 cars in the driveway. They could only afford one. And gas was expensive, adjusting for inflation.

All that said, I found the spot on Google Earth, and the road is pretty empty today too. I guess the number of flights a day determines the amount of traffic on that airport road.

This image looks different because they added another runway overpass, and the camera is a wide angle lens, not a telephoto.
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02-20-2019, 02:09 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Driving 2 miles to the center of town, meeting another car was unusual, then in the off hours, for 4 miles out of town I'd probably meet a car or two but it wasn't unusual to not meet another car. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-21-2019, 07:36 AM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Not these days in most places, but I think glatt was referring to the 50's and 60's, and he's right about a lot less traffic and easier to find the road less traveled. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-19-2019, 04:31 PM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	No wonder cars were so popular then. Just look at how empty the road is. I bet it was fun to drive.

02-21-2019, 08:46 AM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Yeah. I was referring to there being fewer cars on the road back then. Fewer people in the country, and people didn't have 2-3 cars in the driveway. They could only afford one. And gas was expensive, adjusting for inflation. All that said, I found the spot on Google Earth, and the road is pretty empty today too. I guess the number of flights a day determines the amount of traffic on that airport road. This image looks different because they added another runway overpass, and the camera is a wide angle lens, not a telephoto.

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