@voretaq7 I remembered what you said about a helicopter flying into its own downwash. I actually purposely flew my helicopter into its own downwash. It was really cool to watch although all the helicopter did was shake a little bit.
One of my favorite bands wrote a great song with one terrible line: "Like a beacon of blue, [can't remember these words] lights the runway ahead" Great illustration really. Only problem is; THE RUNWAY LIGHTS ARE WHITE. That is a taxiway dude!! You're going to land on someone's head!
@fooot with that blue shift, I don't think you'll ever see the runway lights. You'll leave a big crater where the runway used to be though. Or where the earth used to be, my apocalypse physics are a bit rusty. Something for what-if.xkcd.com perhaps. :)
oh it'll be fine! (Besides the stupid white runway lights blend in with the street lights, I can usually only find airports because of the blue taxiway lights!)
The "beacon" at republic is on one of the lowest structures on the field, and the "green" lens is so badly faded the beacon is "White.... slightly-different-shade-of-white, I guess maybe green? Oh yeah I see REILs and blue taxiway lights, I guess that's an airport..."
it's actually shorter than the hangar (or maybe equal height)
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The word is that one day they might move it to be on top of the (active, FAA) tower on the other side of the airport, but apparently there's some bureaucratic crap that has to happen between the FAA and NYS DOT in order to do that
The Hangar
The Hangar