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The painted airport at Mexico City
By Simon Hradecky, created Wednesday, May 17th 2017 23:20Z, last updated Wednesday, May 17th 2017 23:48Z
There has been a long standing plan to build a new airport at Mexico's Capital Mexico City, expanding the numbers of runways as well as creating longer runways.
Lack of money have now resulted in an interesting "solution". The new airport was painted onto the surface of the dry lake exactly where the new airport has been planned to, even the runways have been painted in their planned positions including full markings.
This move prompts Pilot Associations around the globe to warn their members of possible confusion of old real airport and new "fake" airport. They state that from the air it is not recognizeable that this is just a painting and could be confused with a real airport.
GeoEye-1 Satellite Images of Apr 19th 2017 show the beginnings of the easterly "runway".
Solo en Mexico.
Rob
The painted airport at Mexico City
By Simon Hradecky, created Wednesday, May 17th 2017 23:20Z, last updated Wednesday, May 17th 2017 23:48Z
There has been a long standing plan to build a new airport at Mexico's Capital Mexico City, expanding the numbers of runways as well as creating longer runways.
Lack of money have now resulted in an interesting "solution". The new airport was painted onto the surface of the dry lake exactly where the new airport has been planned to, even the runways have been painted in their planned positions including full markings.
This move prompts Pilot Associations around the globe to warn their members of possible confusion of old real airport and new "fake" airport. They state that from the air it is not recognizeable that this is just a painting and could be confused with a real airport.
GeoEye-1 Satellite Images of Apr 19th 2017 show the beginnings of the easterly "runway".
Solo en Mexico.
Rob