Word: airpark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of them in California and in the ideally flat farm country around Chicago. But they have also sprung up in Florida, Arizona, Colorado, New York and even New Hampshire. All are operating at full tilt despite the ongoing air controllers' strike. Nineteen-year-old Cameron Airpark, 30 miles east of Sacramento, is an aeronautical paradise of clear skies and steady climate, with little fog or pollution. It consists of a 4,000-ft. paved runway surrounded by 120 half-acre lots that border on 100-ft.-wide, four-lane taxiway-roads with names like Lockheed Drive and Boeing...
...planes do tend to shape their owners' lifestyle, though. "When your husband asks you out to dinner," says Jan Carlsen, a resident of Cameron Airpark, "you don't have to go to the local Taco Bell; you can go to the Carson City Taco Bell." By plane it would be about a half-hour hop; by car, more than two hours, some of it over difficult mountain roads...
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