Tue, Feb 08, 2011
About 180 Bizjets Expected For The Big Game
Compiled From Information And Photos By ANN Reader
Robert Maier
Dallas Executive Airport (KRBD), usually a quiet class D, was
expecting 180 bizjets for Super Bowl XLV, and intended to close
runway 17/35 in order to have space to park them all. All the
runway/taxiway markings were repainted to rival DFW.
Photo By Robert Maier
But as in many areas of the country, if you don't like the
weather in Texas wait 5 minutes.
Tuesday and Wednesday of Super Bowl week brought a very
dangerous ice storm. It was the first time KRBD and Love Field
(KCAL) had been closed since 9/11. Everything was been shut down
all week. Then Friday, 6 inches of snow added insult to injury over
the ice. All week, Super Bowl pre-events were cancelled.
The photos seen here were from a visit to RBD Saturday night. Maier
said it was the first time he has ever seen pseudo-snowplows there,
plus a turbine powered snowblower! Only a dozen or so bizjet's had
made it in, and all the local airports were reporting
similar conditions.
Photo By Robert Maier
For gameday, however, there was major
activity at the airport. Snowplows and the truck with a
turbine blower eventually cleared 5700ft of runway 31 at
KRBD, and 1 bizjet was inbound about every every 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, at 'Delta Charlies', the KRBD airport restaurant, they
were apparently required to post two posters about the superbowl
TFR. One in English, one in Spanish.
Photo By Robert Maier
Says Maier "Uhhh... isn't English the
international flying language?"
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