(Click here for From the Air I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII,
XIII, XIV, Appendix, or Bonus)That it's taken us 15 editions to get to this obvious edition of From the Air illustrates so purely how obtuse we really are. Airports. It was so simple. So pure. So perfect. And with this challenge, I went to Google Maps, scouring the world for interesting airports and no doubt throwing my IP address into CIA databases of potential terrorists.
I'll tell you this - it's hard. This is not going to be easy, unless we have some pilots in the crowd. Take a look at the 20 airports on the following page and let me know where in the world they are. (Bonus points for naming the actual airports)
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I'll be very impressed if anybody gets more than 3 of these on their own.
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9. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson
6. JFK - NY
7. International Air Port Antonio Carlos Jobim - Rio, Brazil
** This one was pretty easy, I knew it when I spotted the small artificial beach nearby. They filtered polluted water from the Guanabara Bay to make it and bring the beach closer to that poor neighbourhood.
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3. Hong Kong
4. Denver
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19. Lynden Pindling International, Nassau, Bahamas
5. London Heathrow
8. Charles De Gaulle, Paris
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3. Hong Kong
4. Denver
5. London Heathrow
6. New York JFK
7. International Air Port Antonio Carlos Jobim - Rio, Brazil
8. Charles De Gaulle, Paris
9. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson
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20. Miami
14. Chicago O'Hare
1. Seattle
11. Shanghai Pudong International
1. Seattle-Tacoma, Washington
2. San Francisco, California
3. Hong Kong
4. Denver, Colorado
5. London Heathrow
6. New York JFK
7. International Air Port Antonio Carlos Jobim - Rio, Brazil
8. Charles De Gaulle, Paris
9. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson
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20. Miami
Hint time...
10. Pay attention to that striking land mass just to the south of the runway.
12. This airport is in the (far) southern hemisphere.
13. The city in which this airport resides used to go by another name.
15. Check out the strange point of land in the northeast corner of the photo. (Also, this is an American airport)
16. An airport noted for the dalliances of senators.
17. An Asian airport at a very high altitude.
18. It looks awfully sandy.
12. Sydney, Australia
1. Seattle-Tacoma, Washington
2. San Francisco, California
3. Hong Kong
4. Denver, Colorado
5. London Heathrow
6. New York JFK
7. International Air Port Antonio Carlos Jobim - Rio, Brazil
8. Charles De Gaulle, Paris
9. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson
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12. Sydney, Australia
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20. Miami
15. National Airport (Reagan)
18. Cairo Intl. Airport, Egypt
10. Gibraltar Airport (notice the road running right through the runway)
13. Mumbai International (formerly Bombay)
17. Tribhuvan International Airport (Kathmandu)
1. Seattle-Tacoma, Washington
2. San Francisco, California
3. Hong Kong
4. Denver, Colorado
5. London Heathrow
6. New York JFK
7. International Air Port Antonio Carlos Jobim - Rio, Brazil
8. Charles De Gaulle, Paris
9. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson
10. Gibraltar Airport, Spain
11. Shanghai Pudong International
12. Sydney, Australia
13. Mumbai International, India
14. Chicago, Illinois (O'Hare)
15. Reagan National, Washington, DC
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17. Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal
18. Cario International, Egypt
19. Lynden Pindling International, Nassau, Bahamas
20. Miami
16. Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport (Go Senator Craig!)
1. Seattle-Tacoma, Washington
2. San Francisco, California
3. Hong Kong
4. Denver, Colorado
5. London Heathrow
6. New York JFK
7. International Air Port Antonio Carlos Jobim - Rio, Brazil
8. Charles De Gaulle, Paris
9. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson
10. Gibraltar Airport, Spain
11. Shanghai Pudong International
12. Sydney, Australia
13. Mumbai International, India
14. Chicago, Illinois (O'Hare)
15. Reagan National, Washington, DC
16. Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport (Go Senator Craig!)
17. Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal
18. Cario International, Egypt
19. Lynden Pindling International, Nassau, Bahamas
20. Miami
Nice going everyone! Props to Pete for snagging the hard(er) ones at the end. Credit also goes to Camdawgs and HiJoedelsol for their continued excellence on these challenges.