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Old 3rd Sep 2009, 00:36
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If you look at Woolsington on Google Earth, you see that Prestwick is actually only a mile or so north of Newcastle airport, a little closer to the terminal than Woolsington itself. Something that does not show up on Google is that the 25 end of the Newcastle runway is very close to Havana. In fact when I went on a school visit down the Havana Drift coal mine in about 1957 we were told that we were under the runway, which was being lowered by about three feet as the coal was extracted from under it.

Those of you who are involved at all with computer database systems may be interested to learn that the IATA code for San Carlos Airport, California, the nearest to the Oracle headquarters in Redmond, is SQL.
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