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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife's grandparents used to live in a sky park like that. Right before the birth of my second child I was laid off and my wife was doing her student teaching. Suddenly in a rough situation with no income. Her grandparents came to visit for Christmas and their way of commiserating with us was to say, "I know how it is; we just had to sell our second airplane..." No irony, not joking. They honestly felt that losing one of their airplanes was equitable to losing a job with 2 babies in the house. It's ok though, I came out on top. I have a job now and they're both dead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ya but how many airplanes do you have?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have a model of an F-14 I made as a kid, Microsoft flight sim and a 15 year old flight stick. Does that count? Full disclosure, the F-14 is missing a vertical stabilizer now.