City Skylines from Metro Airports
From most of my travels to various places, I realized that since an airport is built on flat land, there's a chance that you could catch a glimpse of a skyline from there. It may not apply to all cities, especially if the airport is far and there are hills/mountains in the way.
Here are some skylines from airports I have experienced before. New York (Manhattan) from JFK: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/...FK-airport.jpg https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/...024442.article Atlanta from Hartsfield-Jackson: https://wdanielanderson.files.wordpr...-airport11.jpg https://wdanielanderson.wordpress.co...-airport-city/ Charlotte from Charlotte Douglas International: http://travelwellmagazine.com/wp-con...1291000695.png http://travelwellmagazine.com/2015/0...ts-nest-south/ Dallas from Dallas/Fort Worth International: https://cdni.rt.com/files/2016.06/ar...70738b459e.jpg https://www.rt.com/usa/346162-shooti...as-love-field/ |
That last pic is from Love Field, quite a bit closer to downtown Dallas than DFW International.
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Newark NJ (skyline) as viewed from Newark Liberty Airport.
http://943cksy.com/files/2018/01/image.jpg Credit: 943cksy |
this is Boise from final approach to the airport from the west. sorry for the stylized treatment... closest I could find.
https://www.iflyboise.com/media/1229...=1140&mode=max source |
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Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is about 5 miles from the eastern edge of downtown Austin. It opened in 1999. ABIA is the former site of Bergstrom Air Force Base.
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...6c&oe=5B0ECF8A Austin-Bergstrom International Airport - https://www.facebook.com/abia/photos...type=3&theater https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...a5&oe=5B4862ED[ Austin-Bergstrom International Airport - https://www.facebook.com/abia/photos...type=3&theater A photo from May 20, 1991 from when Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip visited Texas and landed at Bergstrom Air Force Base. The city's airport at the time, Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, which was a few miles north of Bergstrom, didn't have a long enough runway to accommodate larger planes. The original 12,500 foot air base runway is still in use by ABIA today. https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...14&oe=5B091D1E https://www.facebook.com/abia/photos...type=3&theater |
Downtown SF viewed from SFO, which is about 13 miles to the south:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4632/...684c3dc2_b.jpg fly away by Randy, on Flickr |
Kevin, have you see the skyline view from Austin Bergstrom at the north end of the west runway? That end of the runway is relatively high and has a commanding view of the skyline if you're sitting on that side of the plane.
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I'll have to dig them up, but I have pictures of the skylines of Tampa, Nashville, Salt Lake City, and Toronto from their airports. There might be a couple more as well.
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I can't speak for the view from the tarmac, but the descent into Philly is quite the treat.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7358/...90774168_b.jpgThe Philadelphia Descent 12 (38/365) by C.M. Keiner, on Flickr |
Miami
the downtown skyline which is about 5 miles | 8 Km to the southeast of Miami International :
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1544/2...cd23bc76_o.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1544/2...cd23bc76_o.jpg http://motrlt.com/wp-content/uploads...ill-Browne.jpg http://motrlt.com/wp-content/uploads...ill-Browne.jpg |
San Francisco (oldish photo sans newest towers) from the Oakland Airport
http://www.baysidehoteloakland.com/i...y-1100x400.jpg http://www.baysidehoteloakland.com/specials/ |
Salt Lake City from Salt Lake City International Airport:
https://cdn.deseretnews.com/images/a...11/1382111.jpg https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/fd7...-Lake-City.jpg |
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^ I didn’t read the text at first and was thinking “what the hell is Concorde doing in Austin?”
Here’s London from Heathrow (apologies but I could only find huge or tiny): https://static.independent.co.uk/s3f...ort-london.png And from City Airport (in the opposite direction): https://img.journalmedia.ie/article/...ersion=3204420 https://www.todayonline.com/sites/de...?itok=a38D25rg For those not familiar, City Airport is pretty close in: https://www.standard.co.uk/s3fs-publ...airport--0.jpg |
Birmingham, AL from Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Intl.
http://www.uab.edu/medicine/cfar/images/rotator-01.jpg Source: UAB http://image.al.com/home/bama-media/...0-standard.jpg Source: AL.com |
A little old but Chicago from O'Hare
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1620/...944f205e_c.jpgAirfield / Chicago Skyline by O'Hare Intl Airport, on Flickr From Midway https://farm1.staticflickr.com/360/1...f466cf74_c.jpgKMDW Scene by Stefan Loeb, on Flickr |
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^ I wish that photo extended farther to the left. It cuts off half of the City of London, and while there aren’t as many big towers northwest of that (maybe Centre Point and some near Euston), you’d get the dome of St Paul’s in view.
Maybe someday London’s skyline will extend all the way from the City to Canary Wharf along the DLR and A13. There’s a lot of underutilized land in between, and it’s mostly post-war low-rise housing (so nothing of historic value that would be protected). The key will be making mixed income work, because it’s mostly council flats. |
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