Wanted: Ideas for developing Cecil

[Dog Walker]

Ock, if my memory serves there wasn't enough space at the Imeson location for expansion.

Do you also remember the pulp mill on the river just off the end of one of the runways that would occasionally shut down the airport with its' smoke?

My first commercial aviation flight was on one of those Super Connies too.  What a beautiful airplane!

[Ocklawaha]

They had to move due to expansion and noise problems. Sadly, the E/W runway toward that damn paper mill, could have been stretched another 1/2 mile! The angled approaches didn't look so hot, boxed in as they were. I remember the mill well... STINK! Between them, Union Camp, and Alton, we had some of the most colorful air in the USA... THANK GOD for Maxwell House downtown or we'd all be living in Toledo.

As a cargo/freight secondary airport, I think we could have pulled it off.

OCKLAWAHA

[samiam]

Make it a green manufacturing zone
1. lithium ion battery plant will be coming soon
2. hybrid car plant to use the battery's produced there, no shipping cost.
3. wind turbine plant
4. solar panel plant
5. current generator plant. they use tide and water current to produce power
6. tech school for green technologies

[Dog Walker]

Was on the plane from LaGuardia to Imeson one August (in an Electra I think) with a couple of guys from Amsterdam who were in heavy wool suits.  When I told them that it was going to be 32C and 90% humidity when they got to Jacksonville, they told me I must be mistaken in my calculations from F degrees to C degrees.

You should have seen their faces at the top of the stairway down from the plane when the heat, humidity and that paper mill stink hit them.  Their coats were soaked through by the time we hit the terminal.  Poor guys.  I had just come from Luxembourg myself and they would have been comfortable in those suits there.