This Great Group started by Hostman with his story:

the famous Ground Controller vs the German Airforce:

A few years ago my wife and I took a two month trip in our RV and one of our stops was at Glacier National Park. One day we took a tram up to Logan's Pass Visitor center located on the "road to the sun" road. I'm not sure but I think the elevation of the visitor center was about 7,000'. In back of the visitor center there is a walking path which leads up the mountain to a vista to view the beautiful surroundings. Due to the high altitude and the poor shape that I was physically in, we made many stops along the way. It was at one of these stops (about half way up) that I came across a man who was sitting on a rock trying to catch his breath. We soon started a conversation and I discovered he was an airline captain working for United Airlines based out of Washington Dulles. Once he discovered that I was once an Air Traffic Controller at LAX, we couldn't stop talking about our aviation experiences.

I told him one of my ATC experience stories: In 1972 the LAX airport was somewhat devided in half. There was runways 24L & 24R on the North side of the airport and runways 25L & 25R on the South side of the airport. There were major taxiways (47 & 49) running N & S between them. During the 70's a lot of new airplanes were devoloped which required runways of a different design to support their extra weight. Only runway 25L was able to support the "heavy" (250,000 lbs and more) jets.

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