Exciting Runway

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From Yahoo.com/travel:

 

Despite its daunting appearance, no accidents have ever occurred at the Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport on the beautiful Caribbean island of Saba.

 

 

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Matekane Air Strip, Lothoso, South Africa

 

 

With a minuscule 400 metre runway that shoots off a 600 metre cliff, forget trying to land here, it’s the take-off that is extreme! Dependent on high winds to help the plane take-off by the end of the strip, planes usually have to endure a drop down the cliff face until they become air born…

 

 

[metalman]

Huge pucker factor, driving it off a cliff to get airspeed,,,crazy,,,,but I'd like to try it :-)

 

 

[Spin]

Bear in mind that Matekane is also at around 8,000' amsl, enough to make any non turbo aircraft feel a wee bit lethargic:eek:

 

 

[metalman]

Bear in mind that Matekane is also at around 8,000' amsl, enough to make any non turbo aircraft feel a wee bit lethargic:eek:

Yeh! Well that explains dropping off the edge to get it flying :-)

I guess the third bounce is a holyyyyyyyyyyyssssshshhhhhiiiiiiitttttttt,,,,,,,ggggooooiiiinnnnngggg aaaarrr,,,,,,,,,,