Chicago Executive Airport is one of thousands of airports that dot the American landscape. Each of them is different, but pilots have little trouble navigating around them because each of them use standardized pavement markings on the taxiways and runways that safely and efficiently guide them from the ramp to the sky. (Although they didn’t offer much help to the runners …
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EMAS: Good as New
Airports are labor intensive businesses. Every time you turn around, there always seems to something that needs attention. A runway check each morning is easy enough to point out a broken runway light or two, or patch a piece of crumbling taxiway pavement. Sometimes though, the work’s a bit more involved, like when an airplane ends up somewhere we hope …
Laser Pointers: Tool, Toy & Anti-Aircraft Weapon
When focusing the audience’s attention on the pertinent portions of a PowerPoint presentation, the laser pointer is a tool. When exercising your cats by giving them a red or green dot to chase, the laser pointer is a toy. When you point it skyward, it can be an anti-aircraft weapon. And when you point it with purpose at an airplane, …