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Recent Examples of jetportThe airstrip was intended in the 1960s for a massive jetport that, with its access corridors east and west, would have trashed Florida’s greatest natural resource, the Everglades.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 May 2026 Construction on a huge jetport had begun, but Stoneman Douglas and others were able to stop it after just one runway was built in the fragile wetlands.—
Christina Mayo,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025 Somewhere in the jetport controvert, Nixon took a liking to Reed and appointed him assistant secretary of the Interior.—
Alex Harris,
miamiherald,
11 July 2018
On Friday, a group of affected workers and advocates gathered at the Broward airport to call for an extension on the protections of over 350,000 Haitians and other TPS holders.
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Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2026
Prices vary, ranging from around 15 euros from Adamas to Plaka and about 30 euros from the airport to Pollonia.
The two-acre facility, owned by the city and operated by Downtown Skyport, is the busiest commercial heliport in the world, hosting up to 200 flights a day.
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Anne Kadet,
Curbed,
19 June 2026
An example of an inherently objectionable use might be a heliport in a heavily residential municipality.
Analysts believe such flexibility could prove valuable in any future high-intensity conflict where conventional airfields are under constant threat.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
3 July 2026
By 1944, the Flying Tigers had come under American control, but still flew out of airfields in China, including one in Yunnan, China, where McKinney was based.
The test, conducted at the Alamogordo air base, was the culmination of the Manhattan Project, the classified American effort to build an atom bomb—before Nazi Germany could do the same.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 July 2026
German media reports say Kaufbeuren will host the system’s radar installation, while the interceptor launchers for the battery are expected to be stationed at the nearby Lechfeld air base.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
5 July 2026
The former often requires irregular cargo like radar systems, missile launchers, helicopters, engineering gear, bridge-laying equipment, etc, delivered to areas with no existing aerodromes.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
5 July 2026
Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP via Getty Images The aircraft, registered in Germany, crashed in a grassy area near the runway of the Nancy-Essey aerodrome, close to a residential area and two roads, an AFP journalist reported.