Aviation Specials – May 2018

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Airliners have been landing at Eoligarry Airport for more than 60 years. Today, Twin O ers provide a vital lifeline for the isl ...

64 // Extreme Airports STOL bush-planes were ideal workhorses for the job. A empts were made to use larger 36-seat Short 360s i ...

Extreme Airports // 65 in desk. Baggage reclaim is outside and everyone walks across the damp beach as they board or disembark t ...

M any people would struggle to name any se lement in Greenland, let alone list more than one. Ilulissat, formerly known as Jako ...

When it comes to airports, they don’t come much more extreme than Ilulissat in Greenland. Robbie Shaw found it to be thriving, d ...

68 // Extreme Airports of the World and was part-funded by the European Union (then European Commission) Structural and Cohesion ...

(Søndre Strømfjord) where many passengers transfer onto the airline’s Airbus A330 to Copenhagen. The small and sturdy 37-seat tu ...

70 // Extreme Airports of the World Other traffi c Reykjavík, Iceland, is connected to Ilulissat by both Air Greenland and Air I ...

Extreme Airports of the World // 71 project. The work will be challenging and expensive due to the mountainous terrain, but the ...

72 // Extreme Airports Jewel in the Caribbean S int Maarten, known as Saint Martin to the French, is a territory shared by the N ...

abandoned their recliners and parasols in favour of the Sunset Bar and Grill or the Driftwood Boat Bar, which still occupy eithe ...

4,800m visibility, more than adequate on mornings when the skies are clear blue, but sometimes challenging when an almost-inevit ...

CARIBBEAN Jose and Maria compounded the tragedy by filling the passenger building’s interior with rainwater. By the end of last ...

CARIBBEAN 76 // Extreme Airports Island paradise Beautiful Saint Barthélemy, smaller and more exclusive than many of its neigbou ...

Extreme Airports // 77 CARIBBEAN to extend it. A spokesman for the airport explained: “It would be good to be able to handle sli ...

CARIBBEAN 78 // Extreme Airports The French Aeronautical Information Publication carries salutary warnings to pilots operating i ...

World’s shortest Saba is a Dutch municipality formed from the upper portion of the now-dormant Mount Scenery volcano, the highes ...

Toncontín gained a fearsome reputation due to high terrain, a hill at the end of its runway and winds that buff et its threshold ...