How This Airport GOT ABANDONED FOR NO REASON south of DFW Int’l Airport?? The Amon Carter Field.

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3 жыл бұрын

(Airport Story) How did this airport with a 18k gold terminal die for no reason? Let's shift the time back to 101 years ago and find out! Story of the FORGOTTEN AIRPORT 2 miles south of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the Greater Southwest International Airport. (AKA: Amon Carter Field)
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@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Long time no see guys! Hope all of you are doing well! I’m back with an airport story video, just decided to add this type of aviation story videos as a new element to the channel. I’ll be updating both kinds of videos in the future, both plane drawings and aviation stories! Thank you guys so much! Enjoy the story!

@MSRTA_Productions 3 жыл бұрын

I think you meant Runway 3 not 39 lol. Interesting facts tho. Haven't even notice that airport south of DFW

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! And hardly anybody could notice it without any hints. I discovered this airport by accident when I was browsing Google Earth, so I thought it would be interesting to tell everybody the story of this little-known airport. Thank you so much for the visit!

@ice711real 3 жыл бұрын

Ohh I like the new video type! This is good btw, better then any information video I could try to make lol

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! But your videos are always funny though, something I don't really have in my videos.

@Notree-dl5pm 3 жыл бұрын

yay great vid

@PBTTOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Wowwwwww

@megadavis5377 2 жыл бұрын

An interesting anecdote: When one is scheduled for training at the American Airlines Academy in Ft. Worth, TX. his facility locator is designated as 'GSW.' And yes, the BAC-111 has a body that only a seal could love. But then, the English are noted for designing and constructing some quite ugly air machines over the past 100 years - except for the Spitfire, of course...

@spamlessaccount 2 жыл бұрын

I drove by that abandoned runway end for years before realizing what it was. The old 17/35 was converted to Amon Carter Boulevard (until recently the home of American Airlines HQ).

@aviationignited 3 жыл бұрын

Omg no way! I literally did a project for school on the WPA like a week ago! That's crazy!

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

OH WOW!

@NighthawkCarbine 2 жыл бұрын

Love Fields survival is a total no brainer. Also Greater Southwest aka Amon Carter Field could not be expanded to the size of the future DFW.

@seearejay 3 жыл бұрын

I thought you're going to draw the airport 🤣

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

No, this is a story video, I just decided to add these aviation story videos as a new element to the channel. I’ll still be drawing planes btw so don’t worry :)

@Cgaming365 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 1k man! Your content is amazing! Well deserved!

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@aviationignited 3 жыл бұрын

Wow X great video! I'm liking this new element to your channel! Hope it works well for you 👍

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked the video! Thank you for stopping by :) just doing an experiment and see how it goes!

@ice711real 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 1k!!! Yayyyy!! I remember subscribing like a year ago when you we're at 36!!

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the support!

@ice711real 3 жыл бұрын

@@xmodder077_aviation9 anytime

@d.fowler2537 2 жыл бұрын

Remember it well. We used to pick up my Grandmother there on here way back from Taiwan. The terminals lacked AC, which made it hot as hell during the summer, and the Fold-out windows only allowed a light breeze to flow through. Still a spectacular landmark for the time.

@doodlemouse.6825 3 жыл бұрын

Great video ☺️😁....editing is superb

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’ll keep improving!

@arctic1488 3 жыл бұрын

Your voice is cool ❤😱🔥

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks!

@Jettech 3 жыл бұрын

u got an amazing voice ! keep going

@thenormaldude9673 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing! You got a sub.

@Arnavshahmr 2 жыл бұрын

Bro you’re the best.

@cameronlewis1218 2 жыл бұрын

Great photo at 10:33. That’s a B17, a B24 and I think a B25 flying by. I was there that day. It was 1970 or 1971 after the movie Tora Tora Tora came out. It was an air show by the Confederate Air Force (later changed name to Commemorative Air Force). I remember walking through part of the terminal to get out to watch the show. I asked my Dad why the airport was empty…

@xmodder077_aviation9 2 жыл бұрын

That’s just a fascinating experience!

@ksbear2 2 жыл бұрын

BTW, it's not the "back One-Eleven" as you pronounced it, but the "B.A.C. One-Eleven "(Initials for British Aircraft Corporation). It was a few months ahead of the DC-9. It was definitely a noisy little bird.

@cameronlewis1218 2 жыл бұрын

“the end of the Great Depression in 1933”!? The Great Depression did not end until many years after that, around 1939. Some argue it lasted longer than that…

@S1mp1l0t 2 жыл бұрын

It's believed the depression didn't truly end until the US was thrown into WWII with the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. 1933 is when the depression reached its lowest point.

@aviationignited 3 жыл бұрын

Wow I watched the video to the end. Honestly kind of sad for the airport. I don't know how I'd feel if I was the one who managed it throughout it's years and then had to watch it go like that.

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching to the end! It’s indeed a sad story. I think if the 2 cities actually cooperated, things could’ve turned out differently.

@AVhistorybuff 2 жыл бұрын

William J. Fuller was Fort Worth's aviation director. He started soon after WWI and managed Fort Worth Meacham Airport from its opening in 1912. When Greater Southwest opened he was its manager until his retirement when the airport closed and he soon after became mayor of Euless, Texas, which was adjacent to Amon Carter Field. Fuller is another un-sung hero of north Texas aviation.

@ArdianBlox 3 жыл бұрын

i'm addicted to thisss

@felipearaiza2903 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@kentcarter835 2 жыл бұрын

If you lived anywhere near GSW then you remember the "hole in the wall" where highway 183 ran under an active runway. They also had a cargo plane crash there in the early 70's. I saw them truck the fuselage section out quite some time later. Weeks at least. And a majestic B-36 sat on the property for many years starting in 1958.

@xmodder077_aviation9 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting history! Thank you for sharing.

@alexapplegate619 Жыл бұрын

What happened to the B36? It wasn't airworthy, I'm sure.

@kentcarter835 Жыл бұрын

@@alexapplegate619 it was eventually moved to one of the air museums but I'm not sure which one. No, she wasn't airworthy.

@alexapplegate619 Жыл бұрын

@Kent Carter thanks for the response. I'm glad to hear that B36 at least made it to a museum. Also, I did read about that cargo plane crash. It was due to wake turbulence. A DC9 was following a DC10, and it encountered wake turbulence and lost control and crashed.

@Keiffy75Games 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, really Informative my Friend! Keep up the Good Work, liked and Subbed !See Ya soon!

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it :)

@Keiffy75Games 3 жыл бұрын

@@xmodder077_aviation9 Your Welcome my friend! =)

@UmmYeahOk 2 жыл бұрын

No idea I was driving over a runway all this time! I hope the gold plated sculptures were rescued and giving a new home. I would think they would be relocated to DFW, but Ive never seen them if so.

@ericowens964 2 жыл бұрын

I’m on the internet looking but don’t see anything. I know I’ve seen some of it somewhere but can’t remember where. Urgh

@MiamiFireBuffing 3 жыл бұрын

can you make a video teaching us how to draw airplanes no tips just knowing how to draw them i am trying to draw planes.

@pauledmiston4845 2 жыл бұрын

The Great Depression did not end in 1933.

@15Med3 3 жыл бұрын

Airfields Freeman got a whole segment on it

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, credited them in the video description

@cptjarret8957 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting airport

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@aviationofnepal178 3 жыл бұрын

Alomst 1k!

@NusaFly002 3 жыл бұрын

Where is Kemayoran Airport?

@AviationWorld408 Ай бұрын

5:59 that plane looks like a tomato

@satyamhere3679 3 жыл бұрын

Why don't you upload a new video on airplane drawings please of hawker siddely trident

@strings1955 2 жыл бұрын

For no reason? Land was a big reason. There was no way GSW could expand enough to deal with the current level of traffic.

@spamlessaccount 2 жыл бұрын

Runway 39??? Was this airport in an alternative coordinate system?

@xmodder077_aviation9 2 жыл бұрын

It was a mistake sorry about that

@nathroxer3134 3 жыл бұрын

i thought you were talking about love field lol

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Nope, there’s another forgotten airport :)

@nathroxer3134 3 жыл бұрын

@@xmodder077_aviation9 yep i realized lol

@ice711real 3 жыл бұрын

hows it going

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Great! Will get back to drawing ASAP

@ice711real 3 жыл бұрын

@@xmodder077_aviation9 nice!

@GlitchaVR 3 жыл бұрын

Is it okay if I give you a shout out in one of my videos?

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Sure! Feel free to do so:) I would really appreciate that!

@GlitchaVR 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. you make awesome videos

@GlitchaVR 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry I did not give you a shout out yet I've been sick for a few days and I can't record

@GlitchaVR 3 жыл бұрын

But I will add you to my channel section on my channel

@strings1955 2 жыл бұрын

BTW, the Depression didn't end in 1933

@age_of_reason Жыл бұрын

The Great Depression did not end in 1933. What school did you go to?

@greg-fh1vc 3 жыл бұрын

1k subs!

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

Yessir!!! Thank you guys for all the support :)

@greg-fh1vc 3 жыл бұрын

@@xmodder077_aviation9 your welcome:)

@arctic1488 3 жыл бұрын

Whats your age

@aviationignited 3 жыл бұрын

Lollll did I see Drake

@xmodder077_aviation9 3 жыл бұрын

You did! And Steph too!

@cbalducc 2 жыл бұрын

The Great Depression didn’t end in 1933.

@derekthompson8340 2 жыл бұрын

The END of The Great Depression in 1933?!

@CAHSR2020 Жыл бұрын

I had to stop watching when I realized you were making up words and the bell sounded for the third time.