Timeline for answer to By what measure was Gander International Airport the "largest" in the 1940s? by gwally
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| S May 19, 2022 at 17:08 | history | suggested | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 18, 2022 at 22:02 | comment | added | FreeMan | Gotcha. Thanks for the update. | |
| May 18, 2022 at 19:05 | history | edited | gwally | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
I added it needed the support infrastructure for hundreds of planes leaving every day.
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| May 18, 2022 at 19:01 | comment | added | gwally | @FreeMan The press and the airport claimed it was the largest in the world. I supplied information to better show why it was considered the largest airport in the world at the time. I think it's a combination of paved surfaces, thousands of employees, and land area. There was enough concrete poured just for runways and taxiways to build a 110 mile long two-lane road. | |
| May 18, 2022 at 14:28 | comment | added | FreeMan | Are you claiming that the 250 acres of land made it the largest, the 35 acres of paved surface or the square yards of concrete? How does this compare to other airports of the time? @Raketenolli mentions Berlin-Tempelhof having a larger land area (but 3 years later). | |
| May 18, 2022 at 12:34 | comment | added | Raketenolli | Mmh, Berlin-Tempelhof was 4.5 km² of total area (1100 acres) in 1941, but had no paved runways, just one large grass field. | |
| May 18, 2022 at 8:16 | history | answered | gwally | CC BY-SA 4.0 |