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Miami Herald
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
Trump is visiting ‘Alligator Alcatraz.' Could Air Force One land in the Everglades?
Could Trump land in the Florida Everglades on Air Force One during his visit to 'Alligator Alcatraz' on Tuesday? It's possible. To land near the controversial immigrant detention facility, which the DeSantis administration constructed over the last week, Air Force One would have to land at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, a remote landing strip north of Tamiami Trail and just east of Big Cypress National Preserve in Collier County. The airport, first known as the Everglades Jetport, was constructed in the early 1970s to serve as a replacement runway for Miami International Airport. It has only one runway, 10,499-feet long, so Trump's pilot would have to stick the landing. Air Force One is a Boeing 747-200B. A Boeing 747 can land on a runway as short as 5,000 feet, according to Simple Flying, an aviation publication. Environmental concerns about the airport's impact on the Everglades stopped plans to develop the facility further in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Today, the airport is used primarily for training. State seizes Miami-Dade airport in Everglades 'Alligator Alcatraz' lies about 40 miles west of Miami International Airport and halfway to Naples. Over the past week, the DeSantis administration built the detention camp in the idle airstrip, owned by Miami-Dade County and recently seized by the state, using its emergency powers. READ MORE: Trump will visit 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Everglades when it opens Tuesday, DeSantis says Bob Thomas, 79, flew in and out of the airport many times during his 21-year career with Eastern Airlines — from 'touch-and-goes to full-stop landings' — and said it is an ideal spot to land Air Force One. 'It has high-intensity runway lighting, GPS approach systems, state-of-the-art aviation features there, and can definitely accommodate Air Force One,' Thomas told the Herald. 'I think it's probably the best thing for him, actually.' DeSantis confirmed Trump's visit to Ochopee — where the airport is located in Collier County — during a news conference on Monday. The president's visit was signaled on Sunday, when the Federal Aviation Administration issued a VIP movement notification for Tuesday — an advisory that restricts flights within a distance typically reserved for the president. READ MORE: FAA issues alert near 'Alligator Alcatraz' in the Everglades. Is Trump visiting? The FAA also issued the same alert for Palm Beach International Airport, although it no longer appeared on the FAA's website as of Monday afternoon. The 1,000-bed facility is just east of Big Cypress National Preserve, which is federally protected land, and it's surrounded on three sides by Miccosukee and Seminole tribal infrastructure, including homes and ceremonial sites. The facility, which officials describe as 'temporary,' will consist primarily of large tents and trailers and is expected to house undocumented immigrants detained both within and outside Florida.
UPI
24-06-2025
- Politics
- UPI
On This Day, June 24: Isner defeats Mahut in longest tennis match
1 of 2 | A victorious John Isner (L) and Nicolas Mahut (R) stand in front of the scoreboard after Isner won the longest tennis match in history in the final set 70-68 on court 18 on the fourth day of the Wimbledon championships in Britain on June 24, 2010. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo June 23 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1901, Pablo Picasso's artwork had its first exhibition in Paris. In 1908, former president Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 71. In 1948, Soviet forces blockaded the western zones of Berlin, setting the stage for the Berlin airlift to support the 2 million people of the divided German city. In 1970, the Senate repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, named for the 1964 incident the U.S. government used to justify war against Vietnam. The resolution gave President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization for the war, but the vote was largely symbolic because the Nixon administration didn't use it for legal authority to be in Vietnam. In 1975, an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 en route from New Orleans crashed at New York's Kennedy International airport, killing 113 people. There were 11 survivors. In 1986, Raquel Welch won a $10.8 million verdict against MGM, which she said ruined her career by firing her from the 1980 movie Cannery Row. File Photo by Ezio Petersen/UPI In 1993, a Yale professor was injured by a mail bomb, the second sent by Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, in two days. It was the 14th bomb Kaczynski sent since the 1970s. In 2009, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to having an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina. He resigned as chairman of the GOP governors association but stayed on as governor and was later elected to Congress. In 2010, John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut in a first-round match played over three days at Wimbledon. The match -- longest in pro-tennis history -- took 11 hours, 5 minutes and 183 games to decide a winner. In 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt. The military removed him from the office in 2013 and he was later sentenced to death for his role in a mass prison break in 2011. In 2021, the 12-story Champlain Towers condo building in Surfside, Fla., collapsed, killing 98 people and injuring 11 others. The remains of the building were brought down July 4, 2021. File Photo By Gary I Rothstein/UPI In 2022, the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that overturned its 1973 opinion in Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide. In 2024, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was freed from a British prison after pleading guilty to a felony charge of espionage in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department. Under the deal, he was sentenced to 62 months in prison, which he already served in Britain while fighting to avoid extradition to the United States. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI
Forbes
13-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Looking Back At Trump's Years-Long Obsession With Oversized Airplanes
Donald Trump has plane envy. 'You look at some of the Arab countries, and the planes they have parked alongside the United States of America's plane—it's like from a different planet,' he marveled Monday. To compensate, Trump is now considering accepting a plane from Qatar, an energy-rich monarchy that has long sought to curry favor with the U.S. president. 'A very nice gesture,' Trump said. Trump's Boeing 757 includes leathers from Italy, fabrics from France, and embroidered Trump family crests on its headrests. Andrew Milligan/Also a gesture that plays directly to the ego of a billionaire who has long preferred oversized planes, personalizing airliners too big to land in some airports over the more nimble jets that most executives prefer. Trump's planes, impractical as they may be, definitely make a statement. 'From an ego standpoint, hey, you land with an aircraft like that,' says aviation pro George Reenstra, 'you can interpret that the way you want.' Alan Marcus, a communications consultant who used to ride on Trump's old Boeing 727, interprets it like this: 'It's an extension of who's got the biggest penis.' Trump's plane features several televisions, one of which measures 57 inches. Andrew Milligan/In the late 1980s, when Donald Trump was making all sorts of ego-fueled purchases, like the Plaza Hotel and a professional football team, he bought part of struggling Eastern Airlines, then converted it into Trump Shuttle, a service connecting New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. The business flopped, but Trump snapped up one of its Boeing 727s and converted it into his personal jet. Trump's plane fit the era–velvety red chairs, rich wooden tables, thickly framed art. 'It always looked good,' says Marcus. 'But, for example, it didn't have noise arresters on it, so we couldn't land at LaGuardia after, I think it was 11 o'clock at night. And I remember the first time I was on the plane, I said, 'What else is missing?'' Trump, whose representatives did not respond to a request for comment, decided to upgrade eventually. In 2008, he approached broker Ben Sirimanne, interested in a Boeing 767. Sirimanne pointed out that it would be hard to land in some places. 'So then he said, 'All right, find me a 757,'' says Sirimanne, referring to a slightly smaller model that was still too big to land everywhere. The broker connected Trump with a friend, who lined up the plane of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, a 1991 Boeing 757. Some jet owners prefer brushed nickel finishes. "Obviously with him, he wanted gold," says Eric Roth, who refurbished the interior of Trump's plane. Andrew Milligan/Before purchasing the plane, Trump contacted another aircraft professional, Eric Roth, who specializes in tricking out interiors of private planes, sending him to take a look and bring back photos. Trump went ahead with the deal and got to work on the redesign, ultimately spending roughly $37 million on the plane. 'As a developer, you're going to have plenty of architects and designers on staff or certainly at your disposal,' says Roth. 'And in this case, it wasn't that at all. It was just him and myself.' Drawing inspiration from Trump's penthouse, Roth came up a design featuring marble, creams and an abundance of gold. Even the seat buckles received a 24-carat coating. Trump wanted a big TV, with a great sound system, to watch movies. He liked the idea of his family crest stitched into the headrests. And he had an unusual dining request. 'An area in the galley for Oreos,' Roth laughs. 'I said to him, 'Mr. Trump, really?' He goes, 'I love Oreos.'' Trump still owns the plane. He used Air Force One during his first term, then upgraded the 757 while out of office, adding, among other flourishes, a prominent American flag to its tail. Trump Force One, as the president's fans sometimes refer to it, became a moneymaker during the 2024 presidential race, with Trump's campaign funneling more than $5 million of donor money into his business as he jetted around the country. Trump has long included helicopters as part of his aerial fleet, for years buzzing between Manhattan and Atlantic City via in Qatar, the country's leaders have been seeking to offload two of their three Boeing 747s, each of which they purchased for $200 million and gave a VIP makeover for over $200 million more, according to Sirimanne, whom the petromonarchy contracted to help sell the jets. All that money left the planes in great shape, with just the sort of interiors that might pique the interest of Donald Trump—lots of creams, some wood, maybe not quite enough gold. In 2018, Qatar gave one of the planes—which sport two full bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, three galleys, an office and multiple lounges—to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president. 'The second airplane was just stagnating, just waiting to be sold,' says Sirimanne. The Qataris wanted $275 million for it, he says. 'I brought them two offers around $200 million each, and they turned down both.' Then, they came up with a different, perhaps more valuable, plan. 'They just decided,' says Sirimanne, 'it's better to gift it to Trump than to just do maintenance on it.' Trump speaks to Alan Marcus, a communications consultant, aboard his old Boeing 727. Courtesy of Alan Marcus
Reuters
28-03-2025
- Business
- Reuters
China Eastern Airlines 2024 net loss 4.2 billion yuan
BEIJING, March 28 (Reuters) - China's state-owned Eastern Airlines ( opens new tab said on Friday its net loss shrank to 4.2 billion yuan ($578 million) in 2024 from a 8.2-billion-yuan loss the previous year. The Shanghai-headquartered carrier said that last year the Chinese civil aviation industry still faced significant operational pressures due to factors such as fluctuating oil prices and exchange rate volatility. ($1 = 7.2650 Chinese yuan renminbi)
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Maribeth Campana, Boardman, Ohio
BOARDMAN, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – Maribeth Campana, 79, entered the gates of Heaven on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. Maribeth was born October 6, 1945, in Youngstown, the daughter of William and Helen Daubenspeck Eckert. Find obituaries from your high school She was a graduate of Boardman High School. She worked as a flight attendant for Eastern Airlines and then went on to earn a degree in nursing. She retired as a registered nurse from Forum Health after 27 years. In her spare time, Maribeth enjoyed attending NASCAR races, vacationing at the beach, especially Key West, Florida and going out to dinner. She made a lasting impression on people she met with her warmth, generosity and sense of humor. Maribeth will always be remembered lovingly by her husband, Robert, whom she married on August 30, 1984; daughter, Renee Spinred; son, Kenneth Johnson; grandson, Sean Johnson; brother, William Eckert; sister-in-law, Lori Campana and brother-in-law, Randall Campana Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by son-in-law, Ruben Spinred; sisters-in-law, Suzanne Eckert, Nora Campana and Toni Campana and brother-in-law, Ronald Campana. The family will receive relatives and friends from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at the Rossi Brothers and Lellio Funeral Home, 4442 South Avenue in Boardman, followed by a 1:00 p.m. service. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests donations be made in Maribeth's name to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 6704, Hagerstown, MD 21741. Family and friends are encouraged to offer prayers for the family and support via phone call, text, email or may visit the Book of Memories at To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Maribeth Campana, please visit our Heartfelt Sympathies Store. A television tribute will air Sunday, February 23 at the following approximate times: 6:27 p.m. on WYTV and 6:58 p.m. on MyYTV. Video will be posted here the day of airing. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
