I took flying lessons as a teenager in the 80s when I lived in Miami. My instructor flew us to that landing strip in the Everglades to practice touch and go's a few times. Last time we went, we landed and then took the taxiway down to the end of the runway and arrived there just as a PanAm 747 was coming in for its own touch and go. I assume they were just practicing or something. Great day.
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Reply to TIL in 1968 the state of Florida began to build a gigantic airport for supersonic jets in the Florida Everglades but was stopped by an environmental coalition after a federal report found the project would “inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem” and the Everglades by MustacheEmperor
I took flying lessons as a teenager in the 80s when I lived in Miami. My instructor flew us to that landing strip in the Everglades to practice touch and go's a few times. Last time we went, we landed and then took the taxiway down to the end of the runway and arrived there just as a PanAm 747 was coming in for its own touch and go. I assume they were just practicing or something. Great day.