Yeah, another rainy day here too.
Not as sunny as in this picture at Amsterdams Schipol Airport.
Wow, that pic is way cool
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Mine is not as cool, but the situation was when you experienced it first hand. Where I grew up, the US military had an airfield closeby. And there was a road actually crossing the runway. When you drove along the road it could happen that gates came down, just like if it were a train crossing. But instead of a train, a plane crossed the road right in front of your car
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The three upper arrows show the road crossing the runway. The arrow in the bottom left is where I lived.
When I was a kid, we played on the runway. Of course it was forbidden and we were shooed away by the army. But that didn't keep us from coming back again and again
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Later, everything was secured with normal fences, then additionally with barbwire. And armed forces patroled the area. A few years ago the airfield was closed for planes and is now only used for helicopters.