Sylvia Brown recently sent in this photo of her grandson, Asa Lamar Flowers, taken at Peachtree Dekalb Airport in Georgia, watching planes after having lunch. “I call it ‘Let’s go fly!” she said. “He has enjoyed flying with his grandfather, Asa V. Brown, in his Swift 80999 and Navion N7BJ based at 18A.”
I’m sure the young lad is thinking, ” they tore down the Berlin Wall in 1991, why am I looking through this frickin chain link wall in 2016!’
That is why they keep fences around air ports so the young with imaginations can’t get started. I remember taking my children to the glider airport to watch them take off. They had pick necks tables out side, with no fences. You could bring a lunch and watch for a couple of hours.
Attention Ladies and Gentlemen, this picture along with the phrase ” Lets Go Fly ” should be the national poster for GA to help bolster the private pilot ranks. Just stop and really look at the scene depicted of the youngster watching the airplane through the fence. What’s going through the child’s imagination?
Notice to yankee pilots (nothing to do with Grumman): It would be difficult to find any object within a 200-mile radius of Atlanta, NOT in some way including the name “Peachtree.”
It is Dekalb Peachtree Airport. Not Peachtree Dekalb Airport.
Really it is Peachtree Airport. In Dekalb County, Georgia.
The airport identifier (PDK/KPDK) confuses folks.
The other “NextGen”: keep him flying!