Word: heliport
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Casteau (pop. 1,800) is so small and undistinguished that it does not even rate a line in Michelin's guidebook. But it has some old red brick barracks on an 800-acre military reservation. By next spring, construction teams intend to throw up a modern headquarters, heliport, and 600 prefabricated houses for SHAPE'S staff of about 2,000 men and their numerous dependents. The cost -$43 million-will be shared by the 14 surviving NATO military members. France avoided a share of the bill by withdrawing from NATO's military committee...
Just as spectacular in its own way is the new heliport that opened for business last week atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building, 59 stories in the air. From that pad, New York Airways will whisk travelers from midtown Manhattan to Kennedy Airport in only seven minutes (v. the 45-minute taxi trip) for $7. Passengers can check their luggage at Pan Am's mezzanine-level counter, never have to bother with it again until they land in London or Bombay...
...promise-to turn the fairgrounds into a city park. The city is now negotiating to keep the handsome Federal Building as a training center for high school dropouts and the New York State Pavilion as an all-purpose theater. Other permanent fixtures are the Hall of Science and the heliport, which will become the focal point for an eleven-acre...
PORT AUTHORITY HELIPORT offers a $6.50, four-minute whirlybird's-eye squint. The flight is best taken at night when the fair becomes a fairyland of colored lights and fireworks...
PORT AUTHORITY HELIPORT offers a $6.50, four-minute whirlybird's-eye squint. The flight is best taken at night when the fair becomes a fairyland of colored lights and fireworks...