Is Fort Lauderdale Airport the same as Hollywood International?

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The Fort Lauderdale Airport is also known as the Hollywood International Airport. It was first established back in May 1929 as the Merle Fogg Airfield. The airport was later named as the Fort Lauderdale Airport a few years later. Back in the year 2018, it served around 36 million passengers. Now, the Airport has expanded to an extent that it hosts over 40 million passengers each year. It also offers different services like airport parking. The Fort Lauderdale Airport parking fees are said to be around 3$-4$/hour. Due to the number of passengers being served, it is ranked 18th as far as total passenger traffic is concerned. Internationally, it is ranked 10th in all of United States for the international passengers it serves at the airport. Similarly, back in 2017, it served around 33 million passengers. This number has greatly increased from the original number. Back in 1959, this same number reached 134,733 passengers only. This change in number greatly shows the extent to which the airport has become busy in terms of the different passengers and airlines traveling to and fro the airport. The most interesting thing is that…
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Aeromodelling

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Introduction Sport today is perceived not so much as a means of improving the population, holding a fascinating leisure, but as a commercial enterprise. A significant part of the clubs exists primarily at the expense of sponsors and, in fact, is the property of powerful corporations. The goal of these corporations is to form an image at the expense of people’s interest in sports, at the expense of the social importance of sporting events, through advertising. The social importance of sports, interest in it, caused by the unpredictability of results, constant intrigue inherent in competitions and attracting the attention of fans, make the sport attractive for journalists of various publications to cover its problems, for reporting on the most significant competitions. Sports reports cause such a high interest of a large audience that they become important objects against which advertising is placed. Indeed, if hundreds of thousands of fans gather in front of the screen, the information transmitted in the brief information block immediately reaches a large target audience. Sports contests are colorful entertainment events. This circumstance also makes them attractive to the creators of commercials. One of the really…
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What is model aircraft?

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An aircraft model is unmanned small size aircraft most commonly referred to as a scale model. This is an imaginary or replica of an existing aircraft. The model aircraft are mainly divided into two groups that are: the flying and non-flying. The non-flying models are sometimes referred to as display, static or shelf aircraft models.    The static model  The static model  The static model (those that are not meant to fly), are mostly scaled, built and painted. They can paint the whole models or that that need to be clipped together.  These mostly range from toys to more detailed and highly accurate models that require wide space to build and many hours of work. They are made from white metal or plastic. The static models come in form of kits. This static can be for research uses like the wind tunnel models that are used for testing and developing new models. They can be modeled as a whole or parts only. The static models are not only limited to aircraft but to boats, ships, animals, soldiers, and even houses.   The flying models   The flying models or the Aeromodelling are collective…
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