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Hobby and Ellington field together are about that size. IAH covers about 5 times as much land tho. It is about 17 sq miles. DFW airport is even more sprawling. It probably takes up twice that land area.
GB park is about 10 sq miles, and there are 2 other parks that are about 8 sq miles here. Think its Cullen and Bear Creek. There are over 400 parks here everything is a park nowadays
You're right. According to this site, the terminals cover 3.6 square miles (Philadelphia International Airport - Fast Facts (http://www.phl.org/fast_facts.html - broken link)).
You would think the actual size of the airport would be easy to google but no such luck. Perhaps a more knowledgeable poster can chime in.
You're right. According to this site, the terminals cover 3.6 square miles (Philadelphia International Airport - Fast Facts (http://www.phl.org/fast_facts.html - broken link)).
You would think the actual size of the airport would be easy to google but no such luck. Perhaps a more knowledgeable poster can chime in.
it looks like the the area of the entire airport is about 4.2 square miles... then again i did the outline of the the terminals themselves and it equaled only about 1.7 square miles, so no idea what the 3.6 miles are.
This tool has been reliable in the past so no idea what's up here.
for the record though I thought a fair amount of the airport was located in delco.
it looks like the the area of the entire airport is about 4.2 square miles... then again i did the outline of the the terminals themselves and it equaled only about 1.7 square miles, so no idea what the 3.6 miles are.
This tool has been reliable in the past so no idea what's up here.
for the record though I thought a fair amount of the airport was located in delco.
did a quick search and it gave me the size in acres. I got 2370 acres which would be about 3.7 sq miles. I got about 1.7 sq miles for the terminals
3.7 square miles is a lot of area. When you consider that some cities (Hoboken, Union City, etc.) are only one square mile, it almost seems silly that it takes so much land to park airplanes. And sillier still that a 3.7 square mile airport is "small" relative to many others.
3.7 square miles is a lot of area. When you consider that some cities (Hoboken, Union City, etc.) are only one square mile, it almost seems silly that it takes so much land to park airplanes. And sillier still that a 3.7 square mile airport is "small" relative to many others.
IF you stop the plane to fast you will kill people considering they are goint ~500 mph, so you need a lot of Room, as well as some airports handle 50-60 planes landing in an hour so its very land intensive.
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3.7 square miles is a lot of area. When you consider that some cities (Hoboken, Union City, etc.) are only one square mile, it almost seems silly that it takes so much land to park airplanes. And sillier still that a 3.7 square mile airport is "small" relative to many others.
I guess.
I think I was maybe thinking of Pittsburgh.
I think in Sq Miles
1. Denver 52 (within city limits )
2. DFW 28 (Not in Dallas of Fort Worth but in city limits of 4 suburbs )
3. Orlando 22 (city limits)
4. Pitsburgh 18 (actually in a burb)
5. Houston 17 (in City Limits)
6. IAD 16 (In Dulles limits)
7. MCI 16 (KC city limits)
8. ORD 12 (Chicago city limits)
These are more than 5 yrs old so I dunno about changes.
Also those 52 sq miles of Denver is not all developed. It includes land owned by the airport around the airport as a buffer zone or for future expansion I guess.
3.7 square miles is a lot of area. When you consider that some cities (Hoboken, Union City, etc.) are only one square mile, it almost seems silly that it takes so much land to park airplanes. And sillier still that a 3.7 square mile airport is "small" relative to many others.
Yes because airports are just used to park airplanes right
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The St. Louis city limits extend from at most 10 miles south of downtown to at most 11 or so miles north of downtown, and about 6-10 miles to the west at most. St. Louis city encompasses about 60 square miles.
Didn't realize how big some of these airports are, wow. LAX is about 5 sq. miles I believe.
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everything is a park nowadays 
