While it is hard to compare Route 50 summer traffic jams to the incoming and outgoing aircraft at Easton Airport, the fact remains that in the skies above Talbot County, things do get busy, sometimes really busy, for the controllers at the control tower at Newman Field. With take-offs and landings growing from 40,000 just a few years ago to over 72,000 expected this year, ESN has become one of the busiest small airports in the country.
And the people that move that traffic within Easton’s four miles of vertical and horizontal air space are the seasoned air traffic controllers leading pilots, many of them learning to fly for the first time, to safely land and depart at one of the most popular airports in the region..
The Spy was invited up to the airport control tower for a short chat with tower manager Damien Gutberlet about the daily operations for Easton’s other traffic cops.
This video is approximately four minutes in length. Additional video provided by Christopher Massey.
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