As I write this, there were 1,729,694,062 websites (and counting) on the internet. While the World Wide Web can be a helpful place most of us cannot live without, many of those sites are useless fodder of little use to anyone. However, once in a while, we stumble upon a simply wonderful site, a site that has not been promoted heavily, is not bankrolled by Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and is purely supported as a labor of love.
Travel Back in Time to the Abandoned Airfields Near You
Key Takeaways:
- Paul Freeman's "Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields" is a highly detailed, reader-driven website documenting over 2,300 defunct airfields across all 50 U.S. states.
- Conceived by an aerospace engineer and pilot, the site serves as a "labor of love" to preserve forgotten aviation history, offering meticulous research and personal anecdotes.
- Now 20 years old, the website aims to motivate aviation enthusiasts to protect existing airfields by illustrating how many have already been lost, and it operates solely on reader donations.
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