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This has been published already another 6 times (at least): https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=airfields-freeman.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=

• Stratoscope 3y ago
  For an aviation history enthusiast like me, a site like this is always worth another look. I live on the San Francisco Peninsula. I'd heard that there had been little airports up and down the peninsula, but I didn't know much about them. This page brought them to life: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm I used to live in Los Gatos, and I had no idea there was a little airport in the hills just out of town! http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanJose.htm http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanJose.htm
  • fragmede 3y ago
    Of course, the local trivia about San Carlos, which is just down the street from Redwood city, previously Oracle HQ, Is that its IATA code is SQL.
    • Stratoscope 3y ago
      Making this even more of a fun coincidence, San Carlos Airport was SQL long before Oracle was founded!
  • eweise 3y ago
    I remember the airport down at the marina in San Francisco when was a kid. Now its a big grassy field.
    • Stratoscope 3y ago
      Would that be Crissy Field? http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm#crissy http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm... There was also Montgomery Field / Marina Airfield (now the Marina Green), but you would have to be even older than me to have seen that one. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm#marina http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm...
      • eweise 3y ago
        Yes the Crissy Field one. Didn't realize there was another marina one.
• Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  And yet, every time it's reposted, new eyes will see it; this is the same problem that e.g. Reddit has, it's full of reposts, but there's so many posts that nobody will ever actually go down the list and read all previous posts. Reposts are an issue on low-volume sites, but HN is not a low volume site. Reposts are also allowed, since reposts done on different times or times of the week can attract a lot more comments, as proven by the search link that shows just one of the 6 reposts having more than one comment.
  • Pamar 3y ago
    I posted the list, so people can also see when it was commented the most, I am not advocating "do not post duplicates", just making an effort to show that this specific site/article had been discussed more than once so if you are interested maybe you'd like to check the old threads. (btw, I thought that in the past "duplicates" would be converted to automatic +1 to older entries of the same item? Has this changed? am I misremembering?)
    • Stratoscope 3y ago
      > I thought that in the past "duplicates" would be converted to automatic +1 to older entries of the same item? You are definitely correct about that. Several times recently, I have submitted articles and found myself on a recent submission of the same article (which presumably got a +1 as a result). Maybe enough time elapsed since the last submission of this article that this didn't happen? In any case, we can all enjoy this cool site that documents so much aviation history.
• toyg 3y ago
  https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
• rob 3y ago
  And I've seen it 0 times since joining in 2007. Happy that it was re-posted today - I spent about 20 minutes on it.