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Ticker displays appear today on the exterior of the News Corp Building, which houses the headquarters for Fox News Channel/News Corp in the west extension of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, as well as one that displays delayed stock market data that is located in Times Square. Apart from some social commentary like Melle Mel's one verse on "Superrappin'", Kurtis Blow's ruefully comedic "The Breaks" (Mercury, 1980) and a spurt of records following the success of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message" (Sugar Hill, 1982), the old school specialized lyrically in party rhymes. In 2012 The Armidale School started sending fours, and the first IV race of 2013 was historic as the first time crews from all nine GPS schools competed. The race is on. KOMO-TV signed on in December 1953 as the flagship station of Seattle-based Fisher Broadcasting; originally an NBC affiliate, it was the television extension to KOMO (1000 AM), which was a sister station until 2021. The station became Seattle's ABC affiliate in 1959 when KING-TV affiliated with NBC after a year-long transition period; it has generally ranked second in the city's television market ratings behind KING-TV throughout its existence. Gelder, Lawrence van (December 11, 1994). "Lights Out for Times Square News Sign?".
Don Mueang International Airport, Thailand (DMK) <a href=http://trips45.cc>„„„‚„y„ „ƒ„{„p„~</a> Are you an avgeek with a mean handicap? Then itfs time to tee off in Bangkok, where Don Mueang International Airport has an 18-hole golf course between its two runways. If youfre nervous from a safety point of view, donft be players at the Kantarat course must go through airport-style security before they hit the grass. Oh, you meant safety on the course? Just beware of those flying balls, because there are no barriers between the course and the runways. Players are, at least, shown a red light when a plane is coming in to land so donft get too distracted by the game. http://trips45.cc tripscan top Although Suvarnabhumi (BKK) is Bangkokfs main airport these days it opened in 2006 Don Mueang, which started out as a Royal Thai Air Force base in 1914, remains Bangkokfs budget airline hub, with brands including Thai Air Asia and Thai Lion Air using it as their base. Although youfre more likely to see narrowbodies these days, you may just get lucky in 2022, an Emirates A380 made an emergency landing here. Imagine the views from the course that day.
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Sumburgh Airport, Scotland (LSI) The road south from Lerwick cuts across the runway of Sumburgh Airport on Shetland. The road south from Lerwick cuts across the runway of Sumburgh Airport on Shetland. Alan Morris/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Planning a trip to Jarlshof, the extraordinarily well-preserved Bronze Age settlement towards the southern tip of Shetland? You may need to build in some extra time. The ancient and Viking-era ruins, called one of the UKfs greatest archaeological sites, sit just beyond one of the runways of Sumburgh, Shetlandfs main airport and reaching them means driving, cycling or walking across the runway itself.
Therefs only one road heading due south from the capital, Lerwick; and while it ducks around most of the airportfs perimeter, skirting the two runways, the road cuts directly across the western end of one of them. A staff member occupies a roadside hut, and before take-offs and landings, comes out to lower a barrier across the road. Once the plane is where it needs to be, up come the barriers and waiting drivers get a friendly thumbs up.
Amata Kabua International Airport, Marshall Islands (MAJ) Fly into Majuro and you'll skim across the Pacific and land on the runway that's just about as wide as the sandbar-like island itself. Fly into Majuro and you'll skim across the Pacific and land on the runway that's just about as wide as the sandbar-like island itself. mtcurado/iStockphoto/Getty Images Imagine flying into Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands in Micronesia. Youfre descending down, down, and further down towards the Pacific, no land in sight. Then youfre suddenly above a pencil-thin atoll can you really be about to land here? Yes you are, with cars racing past the runway no less, matching you for speed.
Majurofs Amata Kabua International Airport gives a whole new meaning to the phrase gwater landingh. Its single runway, just shy of 8,000ft, is a slim strip of asphalt over the sandbar thatfs barely any wider than the atoll itself and the island is so remote that when the runway was resurfaced, materials had to be transported from the Philippines, Hong Kong and Korea, according to the constructors. gLagoon Roadh the 30-mile road that runs from top to toe on Majuro skims alongside the runway. Donft think about pulling over, though therefs only sand and sea on one side, and that runway the other.
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