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Extreme Airport

July 13th, 2007 (Posted by Ryan)

updated tnx to JM

1) Small Saint Barth airport, usually served by planes carrying fewer than twenty passengers.

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2) This airport is located on Saba Island (Netherlands Antilles) and is probably one of the most extreme airports in the world. Pilots that agree to land here should be paid millions! More photos inside.

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1) Saint Barth airport

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2) Saba Island airport

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9 Responses to “Extreme Airport”

  1. JM
    July 13th, 2007 - 4:48 pm

    The 1st picture and the 3rd picture are NOT from Saba but are from the island of St Barts. (Also a fun landing because it is down hill)

    The other pictures are from Saba.

  2. dennisdunbar
    July 13th, 2007 - 9:09 pm

    JM is Very Correct. St. Barts is a very interesting approach. I am well familiar with in and out and they only go one way there. If you examine the ramps etc. you will see that they are nothing like Saba. Pilots going into St. Barths have the biggest balls.

  3. Ivan DeWolf
    July 15th, 2007 - 12:59 am

    I think the lukla airport is way gnarlier. I flew out before it was paved, and there was a tree just past the end of the runway. The runway was very steep, which it had to be since it was too short. They would tug the plane to the top of it, lock the brakes, gun the engine, and then pop the brakes. You rocket down towards the valley, and they pull some G’s and bank out to avoid hitting the other side of the valley. exhilirating…

    http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.world-airport-codes.com/photos/large/LUA_carlos_ballantyne_landingatlukla_t9jhfhkm8b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.world-airport-codes.com/Nepal/lukla-4270.html&h=425&w=288&sz=72&hl=en&start=12&um=1&tbnid=AfQLyPEXavSS3M:&tbnh=126&tbnw=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlukla%2Bairport%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

  4. pb
    July 15th, 2007 - 7:05 pm

    i don’t see what is so “extreme” about this… its a short runway, but these are prop planes landing..

  5. Ari
    July 16th, 2007 - 2:29 am

    The Saba airport is only real short.
    St.Barts on the other hand, is pretty cool, pretty steep approach angle it seems, anyone know exactly how steep the final is?
    to answer #3, prop planes don´t magically land on short airfields, the planes shown are DeHavillandCanada Twin Otters, special short field planes, probably the most successful short field commuter aircraft in the world, which is why you’ll see them anywhere the airports are lacking.

  6. NICEPHORE NIEPCE
    July 16th, 2007 - 5:29 am

    I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit.
    Barnegat Blummis was a poet in the late 19th Century in Knihinicze, Ukraine. He farted three times each morning, produced a poem, then ran through the wheat fields screaming, “Ich hob gelost eine fortz!”

  7. esvl
    July 16th, 2007 - 8:32 pm

    Thats one nice Island.

  8. MICHAEL J. SCHMIYZ
    July 19th, 2007 - 12:47 am

    I LIKE IT, ITS A BEAUTIFUL SETTING. ONE NEVERS SEES A HIGHWAY ABOVE AND A AIRSTRIP FOLLOWED BY A BEAUTIFUL BLUE BAY.

  9. Vince
    July 22nd, 2007 - 2:41 am

    This is the same runway, if u remember a game for N64 called pilot wings. well the runways on it its pretty cool.

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