Talk about working in the right place!

[OBIO]

Okay, it's a well known fact that I love aircraft. Have never flown one, nor flown in one....but I love aircraft. The place I work is in one of the 22 buildings that make up the Central Ohio Industrial Park in Shelby, Ohio. Today it dawned on me that the road my workplace is one is named after the builder of my favorite WW2 fighter bomber...the P-47. Republic Avenue. And that one of the roads I take to get to Republic is named after the company that built my favorite WW2 heavy bomber...the B-24. Consolidated Drive. I looked the place up on a Shelby map...and all of the roads in the industrial park have aviation names: Martin Road, Waco Drive, Ryan Road, Sikorski Drive, Allison Drive, Curtis Drive, General Road (as in General Aircraft Company). How freaking cool is that?!?!?!?!?

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[FlameOut]

Yep, that is very nice.
If you have Goggle Earth, you can come to my fair state, Alabama, and search for the city of Huntsville... the Space and Rocket Center.... and zoom in to see all of the names of the roads are named after just about every missile or rocket system that was developed there... Von Braun, Pershing, Nike, etc;......

[IanHenry]

That reminds me of a road in Morayshire Scotland, onthe edge of a now overgrown WW2 airfield called Dallachy, called Beaufighter Road(I'll leave you to figuer out what they used to fly from there). I like that, Ithink I would like to live somewhere called Beaufighter Road!

Regards,
Ian.

[aeromed202]

Maybe it's common practice but one of the local fields here has all aviation related street names. Cessna, Mooney, Piper, etc. then the rest Alpha, Romeo, Charlie, etc. Been there for a couple of medicals and fires too.

[OBIO]

On lunch break, I was talking to Ed, the supervisor for the sanitation crew at the plant. I mentioned that I would like to find some info on the history of the buildings because all of the street names are aircraft related. He told me that the buildings 1 through 18 or 20 were built early during WW2 and they did in fact build parts and components for aircraft there. His grandmother worked in one of the buildings during the war. He didn't know which building she worked in or which aircraft company she worked for. So, the building I work in WAS a WW2 aircraft plant to some degree. I like to think where I stand today packing corn and kiwi and potatoes is were someone stood those many years ago building parts for either the P-47 or B-24.

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[cheezyflier]

i'm more concerned with the newly spilled fact that you've never flown. that really oughta be corrected.

[OBIO]

Not newly spilled....I have mentioned that I have not flown a number of times. I have flown once....but I was so young I can't remember it....and anything that happened prior to the development of long term memory (such as bed wetting, pants pooping and potty training) do not count as actual events in our life. So, even though I have flown once (Dad had a doctor friend who took us up in his Cessna) I can not count it as an actual life experience since I have absolutely no memory of it....just been told that I was up in a plane when I was like 1.5 years old.

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