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Re: Kansas: heartland of celestial navigation
From: Bill B
Date: 2015 Oct 29, 15:38 -0400
From: Bill B
Date: 2015 Oct 29, 15:38 -0400
On 10/29/2015 2:22 PM, Alan S wrote: > As for the seeming oddity of a navigation item supplier being located in > Kansas, the following old saying comes to mind. "Everyone has to be > somewhere". Having lived in Wichita, KS it is not as odd a location as you might first believe. AirBus, Boeing, Beechcraft, Cessna, Learjet and others have manufacturing facilities there, as well as a host or suppliers and related firms including avionics. It is almost impossible to avoid living below someones flight path, from civilian to military. Being centrally located there are also cross-country stopovers for military aircraft. (It was there I learned to identify an overhead Navy fighter, as its wings pivot forward in preparation for landing if memory serves.) So it's pretty much the "Field of Dreams" story. Ken placed Celestaire there and the others came. ;-)
