Airport ⁽³⁾

On Jul 1, 2014, about a day after my son returned from China, I heard that the largest plane around, the Antonov 225, had landed at MSP Airport.  I told Nathan that we had to go drive to the airport (2 nautical miles away from…

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 running PiAware to receive ADS-B transmissions from aircraft in the area and feed that data to FlightAware. It provides a real-time view of traffic approaching and departing Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, especially from my location beneath runway 12R approach,…

Airport was released in 1970 and was filmed in part at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport (MSP). Because of that local connection—and because the film helped define the 1970s disaster-movie genre—it has always been an interesting part of the airport’s history. I wrote a more detailed…