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Subject: Re: Berra Airport- No Ordinary Airport
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On 22/07/2014 15:23, Savageduck wrote:
> On 2014-07-22 13:11:14 +0000, Andrew Chaplin
> <ab.chaplin@yourfinger.rogers.com> said:
>
>> PilotJedi <PilotJedi.e1411d0@aviationbanter.com> wrote in
>> news:PilotJedi.e1411d0@aviationbanter.com:
>>
>>>
>>> Berra Airport in Scotland is one of the most spectacular and beautiful
>>> airports in the world, it's also one of it's kind. What makes this
>>> airport so unique is that planes land simply on the beach. During
>>> low-tide there are three runways. Marked with wooden poles at each end
>>> and at night car lights and reflective strips laid on to the beach help
>>> the pilots land. The Traigh Mhor or the bay where the airport is was
>>> famous for its cockles until aircraft started to use the beach on 14
>>> June 1933. Even today the beach is open for public, only a windsock
>>> indicates weather an aircraft is coming and the beach should be cleared
>>> out. But don't be fooled Berra Airports has the same regulations as any
>>> airport in the world has, and safety is as important there as in any
>>> airport.
>>>
>>> [image: http://i.imgur.com/CVglY3dl.jpg]
>>>
>>> [image: http://i.imgur.com/GBLFk24l.jpg]
>>>
>>> Full Album here : http://tinyurl.com/ng8shom
>>
>> You need to get these things right, it is "Barra," not "Berra."
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra#Transport
>
> Yogi would be disappointed. ;-)
>
Perhaps that's where he had in mind when he said "If you don't know
where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
--
Peter
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