Traffic
For the 12-month period ending January 1, 2006, the airport had 245,872 aircraft operations, an average of 673 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 281 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 19% multi-engine and 2% helicopter.
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Famous quotes containing the word traffic:
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)
“Poems stirred
into paper coffee-cups, eaten
with petals on rye in the
sun—the cold shadows in back,
and the traffic grinding the
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—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“To treat a “big” subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening’s traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)