Article says the area is swampy which would be not so good with fixed gear, or does Cirrus have retracts? Anyway the old saying that any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

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Hate to burst the “Brightest” bubble, but there’s many a educated person that’s not too smart.

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It may not be news to some but there are probably not aware of that fact. It may not be beneficial to us but for me I find a lot of thes non beneficial items interesting.

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Any others here know Conrad Kalitta as Connie Katitta from his drag racing days?

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You can see them on “Ice Pilots” on the Weather channel.

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From what I read it didn’ become operational until mid 1944.

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What commercial jets were flying 70 years ago? Germany had a jet fighter at the end of WWII and we had jet fighters during the Korean War. The English had a commercial plane, the DeHavalin Comet, before the 707 but the wings wanted to fall so they didn’t last for long. Looking it up the Comet did start in 1952, but they were a sad and tragic story.

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Correction: First commercial 707 flight 1958

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Commercial jet airplanes started out over 60 years ago. The 707 started US flights in 1957.

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?? Close Willow Run? Detroit has no part of Willow Run, it is run by Wayne County as is Detroit Metro and would be the ones to make any decisions about the airports future.

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