This is
Barra Airport, located on the hebridean island of Barra.
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Now, I know what you’re thinking, it’s something along the lines
of “No, you idiot, that’s a beach!“.
You’re exactly right: Barra airport is the
beach. In fact, it’s the only Airport in the world where
scheduled flights land on a beach.
Of course, that schedule has to change regularly, as the
airport’s three runways all become completely unusable during
high-tide.
The beach is open to the public, and supposedly good for cockle
picking, all you have to do is check at the
control tower to see if the airport is currently
operational.
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More info and ground level pictures http://www.hial.co.uk/barra-airport.html here and on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_Airport Wikipedia
Thanks: Adam Rus & http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/61482 nikitakou
Tags: , Airport, Barra
On the 19th of June 2005, a Mahfooz Aviation Boeing 707-347C
crashed while landing at
Addis Ababa-Bole Airport in Ethiopia. Luckily all 5 crew
survived, but the aircraft was written off.
Although I could be wrong (hey, it’s happened before), I believe
that this Google Earth satellite photo shows the wreckage of that
exact crashed plane!
So, what’s my proof? Firstly, the satellite photo is dated as
November 2005 and the June crash is the only Addis Ababa-Bole
Airport incident listed on the http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20050619-1&lang=en
Aviation Safety Network for the whole of 2005.
For further proof I measured the wingspan of the crashed plane
using the Google Earth ruler, and it more or less matches the 44.42
m wingspan of a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_707 707-320B.
Anyone able to prove me wrong (or even right)?
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Tags: , Ababa, Addis, Airport, Bole, Crash
Continuing this week’s semi-theme of very large things, we
present the world’s largest airport near Dammam,
Saudi Arabia!
Although it’s nowhere near what I’d expect from such a grand
title. Compare its tiny, empty terminal to the bustling Heathrow
airport and you’d be forgiven for thinking I was making it all
up.
You see,
King Fahd International is the world’s largest airport by area,
and at 780 km² it is bigger than the nearby country of
Bahrain. There’s 698,585 people in
Bahrain and they’ve still got three
airports!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Fahd_International_Airport
Wikipedia for King Fahd.
Tags: , Airport, Largest, The, world