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Published 03/08/2017 at 13:15
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Published 03/08/2017 at 13:15
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Charles de Gaulle airport opened in Roissy, France. Video is in French, but has a great walkthrough of the original configuration. Plus lots of vintage airplanes and Citroens!
"SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie" (sidewaysondirt)
03/08/2017 at 13:20, STARS: 0
TIL that Roissy is a real place.
"PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
03/08/2017 at 13:22, STARS: 1
This is entirely why I “love” the French.
“Zis is not zhust an Ahirport , zis iz ahrt . Whe haf made an ahirport on zee level wiss Michalango’s Dahveed and zee Sistine Chapel.”
“Um, it’s a sprawling mess of concrete.”
“IT IZ AHRT YOU PHILISTINE! Mon dieu !”
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
03/08/2017 at 13:24, STARS: 0
I think it’s actually in like six or seven different communities, but Roissy is the one everyone seems to use.
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
03/08/2017 at 13:28, STARS: 0
TRUTH. Plus CDG T1 lifts many elements of YYZ’s old Terminal 1 (64) and TPA’s terminal (72). Which makes it even more French.
"Sir Halffast" (Sir_Halffast)
03/08/2017 at 13:41, STARS: 2
That’s a long time to be the shittiest major city airport in the world.
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
03/08/2017 at 13:48, STARS: 0
Hey hey hey, just because you got lost in the tubes there don’t be hating.
"Sir Halffast" (Sir_Halffast)
03/08/2017 at 14:10, STARS: 1
Didn’t get lost, just spent the entire time in transit wondering if it was going to collapse on me.
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
03/08/2017 at 14:25, STARS: 0
This is a valid fear.
"ivnic8" (sasgxl)
03/08/2017 at 16:28, STARS: 1
My wife and I flew out of CDG to come home from our honeymoon in 1998. The taxi to the airport was in a Passat wagon, and the driver was C R A Z Y. He was doing about 100mph (160kph) through morning traffic as if it was nothing - it scared the Hell out of us.
At CDG, we were through security, walking around the 2nd level, and we heard a loud explosion. We could see smoke rising from below. Looking over the railing, I could see that security used a shotgun to blow up a package that was left on top of a pay phone. You could see the hole in the phone, and guys poking through the package. Most people seemed to take it in stride - just another day in a busy European airport.
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
03/08/2017 at 16:59, STARS: 0
That’s a great story. To have been a fly on the wall while those cops were talking strategy. Cop #1: “We should call the bomb squad.” Cop#2: “Or we could just blast it with a shotgun. Haven’t you always wanted to shoot a payphone with a shotgun?”
"tromoly" (tromoly)
03/08/2017 at 17:55, STARS: 0
Neat place, had a ~6 hour layover there last year, unfortunately my flight in there was >2 hours late otherwise I’d have hopped a train into Paris. Still was a decent time, I’d fly through there again.