Subj : Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Nov 20 2019 09:17:00 Hi Nancy! BM>> As for any other flying, Moline (IL - MLI) is just too convenient so BM>> would be the starting and ending points. Easy to fly into Chicago or BM>> Detroit (United and Delta hubs, respectively), or other cities. LIS, BM>> mostly depends on location. NB>> Indeed... both your location, and where you are trying to get to.. :) BM> Right. And LIS last summer was considering changing routes a bit just BM> so wouldn't have to get up so early for the starting leg -- good thing BM> I didn't because of something happening at the terminal I was BM> considering flying in to. Not recalling what it was but would have BM> more than likely delayed my arrival in NH, so all the convenience of a BM> little extra sleep would have been discarded. NB> Guess you lucked out there, then... :) Unless I had been able to doze amidst whatever the problem had been! BM>>> When I was growing up in southern New Hampshire any major flying was BM>>> done out of Logan International (Boston - BOS); there was an airport BM>>> in Nashua NH but no commercial flights, next one was in Manchester NH BM>>> -- I don't recall much about it back then other than it was a military BM>>> airbase. While I was in college Manchester (MHT) took off (no pun BM>>> intended!) and became an alternative of sorts to Logan, only 50 miles BM>>> away. That allowed it to really expand and is now "Manchester - BM>>> Boston Regional", so a lot of travel which had gone to BOS now goes BM>>> to MHT. Lots of shuttle services between the two airports and the BM>>> areas between, air and ground. NB>>> Makes sense to divert some of the traffic off of Logan... keep it NB>>> from getting too congested.... BM>> Right, and I don't think they can expand too much -- fill in Boston BM>> Bay? No idea if there was an actual plan to make Manchester (NH) BM>> the 'expansion' or if it just sort of happened. NB>> Hard to say... could have been either, or some of both... The NB>> airports around DC are similar, at taking some of the load off each NB>> other... with BWI the major one, and the other two having their own NB>> particular benefits for certain situations... ;) BM> I think somewhat the same for Chicago's O'Hare (ORD) and Midway (CHIA BM> -- hmm: go to Brazil and land at PET ?!) -- close enough to take some BM> of the traffic off the primary airport. NB> And similarly for NYC, between Newark, JFK and LaGuardia... :) Probably just more of the 'hindsight is 20/20': if had known air travel would become so popular and the planes becoming so large they (possibily) would have allocated more room for airport expansion: the landing areas, terminals, and structures around in the landing paths. Anchor a carrier in the Atlantic, run some ferries between the new floating airport and land.... NB>>> Never know what might prompt looking up things and learning details... BM>> Keep going East and I end up in ....Spain?! I'll admit to generally BM>> thinking England or maybe France is more easterly but they're north. BM>> Does make sense because know the coastal ocean water flow is pushed BM>> out towards England and causes their fog by Cape Cod. (Filed under BM>> "Things only a New Englander generally knows". ) NB>> UBI's, a friend of mine used to call things like that... Useless NB>> Bits of Information.... but often interesting... BM> :) And sometimes called 'trivia': not too important, but sometimes BM> important enough in some instances not to be trivial. NB> Exactly, sometimes not really that useless... :) Right: everything has importance, just not always important. BM>>> OTOH "judder' -- maybe derived from 'jerking' and 'shudder'? BM>>> ...My brain hurts! NB>>> Now that's a word I'd not heard before.... ;) BM>> Nor I, which probably contributed to why I (and others) didn't know BM>> how to describe the visual effect in a single word. NB>> But a useful word to learn, at least in this context... :) BM> Yes, as you have said in other messages better to learn the right word BM> to use. Though as the taglines says, what's the use of learning how BM> to speak proper English if no one will understand. ("Doo-flingy" BM> is not a sufficiently technical term in just about any conversation.) BM> OTOH, one does have to find out what the correct word is in order to BM> be able to use it. NB> One has the satisfaction of using the proper word... ;) And then NB> the fun of having to interpret it to everyone else... :) I've had numerous times when I've had to pause and come up with common terms when trying to explain why something isn't working/working properly. 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