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A HERETIC I AM

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32. Fair enough.

Reply to HooptieWagon (Reply #31)

Thu Nov 21, 2013, 05:00 PM

Nov 2013

I am familiar with the geography of that area and the layout of both airports, as I have been through there many times.

I defer to your first hand knowledge, however.

Look at a sat shot of the East side of Wichita. There are 3 airports in that general vicinity, more or less in line, northeast to southwest and all of them having runways at roughly the same compass heading.

http://goo.gl/maps/8GRlg

Jabara airport is the one furthest north.

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