Springtime for Zeon (Woggy Mk II) on Nostr: Also notable that some states out in the west, particularly the desert shitholes, got ...
Also notable that some states out in the west, particularly the desert shitholes, got a real odd injection of people in the post war era. Military bases and airfields dot the landscape, so there was a lot of development in the barren wastes to take advantage of them once they started coming out free to municipalities.
Add in the post-war glut of combat trained pilots and you had a short span where a whole lot of people actually had a pretty thriving community of commuting by plane. IIRC they made like 10,000 cubs from 46 to 49, and that’s on top of their mountain of surplus L4’s. Now, suburbs have expanded to enclose all those fields, but it’s always surprising to see how densely packed our airfield network is.
90% of people in the country have a small airport within 30 minutes of them, most of the time well-kept, paved, and provisioned. Once they get all these little whirlybirds going, you’re gonna see a whole new frontier of commuting
Add in the post-war glut of combat trained pilots and you had a short span where a whole lot of people actually had a pretty thriving community of commuting by plane. IIRC they made like 10,000 cubs from 46 to 49, and that’s on top of their mountain of surplus L4’s. Now, suburbs have expanded to enclose all those fields, but it’s always surprising to see how densely packed our airfield network is.
90% of people in the country have a small airport within 30 minutes of them, most of the time well-kept, paved, and provisioned. Once they get all these little whirlybirds going, you’re gonna see a whole new frontier of commuting