William Peters submitted this photo and note: “Flying over Atlantic City.”
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I remember flying into the old Bader Field – including on my first solo cross-country. Landing to the west, final would be over the water then over the casinos. If you were level with the big bunny on the side of the Playboy Casino on final, you knew you were on the glide path. Good times. Today, both the origin and destination airports of that trip are gone.
It is a pitiable shame that Mr. Peters can no longer land at Bader Airport where he might have walked into Atlantic City to see the sights up close. Decades of poor administration on the part of the city and the State of New Jersey led to the airport’s demise. It didn’t have to be that way. Like Meigs in Chicago, Bader’s closing is a wake-up call to all of us who love our freedom to fly. Airports cannot be taken for granted. They are public use resources that have to be defended from the timidity and caprice of public officials.