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From Prairie to Planes

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I became interested in Greater Southwest International Airport resulting from being taken there as a kid, and from knowledge my father actually worked there when it was an airport. After having suffered through 3 decades of the Wright Amendment years at Dallas Love, I wanted to know the rest of the story what was wrong with GSW airport, and how did it get so messed up in the first place.

The answer I found can be summed up with one name alone - Amon Carter. It is a hugely sad story of politics gone horribly wrong, and twin-city rivalry taken to inexcusable proportions, resulting in a worthless airport being constructed in the wrong place, and having to be razed in less than two decades.

This book covers all of that, in minute up to the minute details of who the players were making the decisions, and why it took 3 decades too long to finally come up with a usable shared airport for both Fort Worth and Dallas to benefit from.

This book tells mostly about the history of the Dallas-Ft Worth area and it's aviation roots. The book explains the building and operation of one of the largest aiports in the world. This is a good book, but more could be said of the current operations.