Has anyone noticed a change at the airstrip?

[Darian]

Has anyone tried getting there lately?  With the downtime and other things happening, I forgot to see if there was now a way to easily get up there.
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Arleas and I got bored and made the trip tonight. Got a ton of screenies which I need to get formatted and posted.

Some highlights:

The gryphon master at the airstrip is a placeholder -- a Stormpike Mountaineer.

At both the airstrip and the Menethil farm, there are Dun Algaz-style tunnels heading generally toward Ironforge. The airstrip tunnel is blocked off only a few feet in -- but the other one runs about 200 yards before opening up onto a vast... nothing. Arleas decided to jump. Fell for about 20 seconds before going splat.

Near the Menethil farm, there's a four-way crossroad; one road leads to the farm area that you fly over, another leads to the above-mentioned tunnel, and the other two roads sort of peter out after a bit (more on that in a second). At the crossroads, there's one of the usual road junction signposts... with signs saying "This Way," "That Way," and "The Other Way."

The other two roads both lead out onto a massive plain of empty grass. I mean, massive. To the north, this plain rolls right up to the top of the Raptor Grounds and Whelgar's Excavation Site; to the east... you ever noticed on your mini-map that lake to the west of Dun Algaz and south of Angerfang? The one you can't get to from below? The plain rolls right up to it. From the hillocks surrounding the shores, I was able to get overhead screenshots of Dun Algaz, the Spider/Incendicite Cave, and Angerfang. Anyway, we're talking about real estate stretching all the way from Menethil Bay to Dun Algaz west-to-east and from Angerfang to Dun Algaz north-to-south. If it were populated, a dozen (people/groups) could probably hunt there without contention.

There's some very odd ground texture seams up there, too. Grass cutting straight into rock on a straight line. Obviously still needs some work.