Otopeni, empty and retro airport, as you have never seen. Richard Nixon was received here with fast before the construction is completed
Empty and retro – Otopeni Airport, as you have never seen. The first big name that stepped into it was Richard Nixon, before the construction was completed PHOTO Credit: Archive of the Union of Architects in Romania.
The Fanion Airport of the Socialist Bucharest was inaugurated with trumpets and trumpets in April 1971.
Until 1965, in Otopeni there was only a military air base that had a 1200 m track. The increase in air traffic, until then exclusively by Baneasa Airport, required the construction of a new airport.
The works were mainly aimed at the modernization of the existing track, so as to allow the landing of large capacity planes, its extension up to 3500 m, thus exceeding the Orly airport runway, and the construction of a passenger airport.
On April 13, 1970, the “Otopeni International Airoga” was inaugurated with a large pump by Nicolae Ceausescu and the party and state leadership. It had with special electrical installations, heating and ventilation, refrigeration and electro-acustic, rolling stairs, pleasant smelling toilets and conveyor belts.
B365.ro restores the story of Otopeni Airport, from the beginnings with elegant banquets and armchairs, with huge windows and generous spaces, but all deserts.
