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Everglades Jetport in Florida was to be the world s biggest - now there s just a runway to nowhere

Florida s ghost airport: Everglades Jetport was to be the world s biggest hub, with Boeing s answer to Concorde coming and going. But all that remains is a runway to nowhere in a swamp. The vision for Everglades Jetport in Florida in the 1960s was for it to be the biggest airport in the world It was set to occupy a 24,960-acre plot five times larger than the footprint for New York s JFK Airport Building began in 1968, but a year later, a damming environmental report led to work being halted for good

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Everglades: The world s greatest airport that never was

Everglades: The world s greatest airport that never was CNN 1 hr ago © Courtesy of Miami-Dade Aviation Department It was supposed to be the world s largest airport, a glamorous intercontinental hub for supersonic airliners with six runways and high-speed rail links to surrounding cities. But today, it s little more than an airstrip in the middle of nowhere. The Everglades Jetport, as it was called when the project launched in 1968, started its life right at the end of the Golden Age of air travel, when plane cabins were filled with the smoke of cigars and the clinking of silverware. © NASA The Tupolev Tu-144 operated from 1968 to 1999.

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Everglades: The world s greatest airport that never was

Everglades: The world s greatest airport that never was
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