Double Springs–Winston County Airport (FAA LID: 3M2) is a public-use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) east of Double Springs, a town in Winston County, Alabama, United States.
== Facilities and aircraft ==
Double Springs–Winston County Airport covers an area of 65 acres (26 ha) at an elevation of 753 feet (230 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 3/21 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,403 by 79 feet (1,037 x 24 m).For the 12-month period ending April 27, 2010, the airport had 3,750 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 10 per day.
This app shows satellite views of random airports. Its aim is to introduce you to the variety of airport structures embedded into the landscape.
Parts of the website are heavily inspired by David Schmidt's website chuchichechocha.com.
Usage
Click on the satellite image or on the button in the control panel to advance to another randomly selected airport.
Click on the button in the control panel to start auto play mode (every 30 seconds a random airport is loaded); Click on the button to stop the auto play mode.
Click on the button in the control panel to search for a specific airport by ICAO code, IATA code, airport name, or location name.
Click on the button in the control panel to show additional information about the current airport and to open the current view in a variety of external services (e.g. Google Maps).
Click on the button in the control panel to toggle fullscreen mode.
Unlike other mapping websites, it is not possible to change the view by panning it around with the mouse or to change the zoom factor.
Technologies and Data Sources
This app is based on the Google Maps API, which on the one hand provides a powerful programming interface for web-based mapping applications, and on the other hand opens access to high quality satellite imagery for places all over the world.
The backend is realized in Python with the help of the excellent Flask micro framework.
The locations of airports have been imported from the public domain data provided by the aviation enthusiasts at OurAirports.com. The app displays randomly selected airports of the categories 'large_airport','medium_airport' and 'small_airport' for which runway coordinates are available.
Furthermore, the user interface incorporates icons from Font Awesome and fonts from Google Fonts.
Author
This is brought to you by me, Florian Pigorsch.
Feel free to contact me via Google+ or mail.
The source code of this app can be found at Github.
Backlinks
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This app shows satellite views of random airports. Its aim is to introduce you to the variety of airport structures embedded into the landscape.
Click on the satellite image or on to advance to another randomly selected airport.
Click on start 'auto play' mode (every 30 seconds a random airport is loaded).
Click on to search for a specific airport.
Click on to show infos about the current airport.
Click on to toggle fullscreen mode.
Search for airports
You can search for ICAO-codes (4-letter airport codes, e.g. 'KSFO'), IATA-codes (3-letter airport codes, e.g. 'SFO'), airport and location names (e.g. 'San Francisco').
Search queries containing multiple words and/or non-alphanumeric characters may be problematic - try to keep your query simple (e.g. prefer 'Helsinki' to 'Helsinki Airport')!