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World's most remarkable airports

Started by Phil Bunch, Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:23

Phil Bunch

Popular Mechanics, a US magazine about engineering and scientific topics at a popular level, proposes these airports as the world's most remarkable.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/architecture/4346192

If one clicks each airport thumbnail, some interesting text is provided through a text slider


1: Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan, 3 miles offshore on reclaimed land.

2: Gibraltar Airport, has a local road and sidewalk running across the runway

3: Madeira International Airport, Madeira, Portugal.  Runway extension is built on a 3000 foot, 590 feet wide bridge structure, capable of handling 747s.

4: Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand.  Has a golf course between the runways; taxiways only at the ends of the runway.

5.  Ice runway at McMurdo Station, Antarctica; handles C17 military freighters.

6: Congonhas Airport, Sao Paulo, Brazil.  5 miles from city center and its high-rise buildings.

7: Courchevel International Airport, Courchevel, France; 1700 foot runway with a 18.5 percent gradient hill in the middle

8: Princess Juliana International Airport, Simpson Bay, Saint Maarten. 747s can blow people off the adjacent road and beach.

9: Svalbard Airport, Svalbard, Norway.  Built on permafrost above the Arctic Circle, the northernmost scheduled airport for private passengers.

10: Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, Saba, Netherlands Antilles, 1300 foot runway with each end at the edge of an ocean cliff.

11: Barra Airport, Barra, Scotland

12: Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong

13: Toncontin International Airport, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

14: Qamdo Bangda Airport, Qamdo, Tibet, world's highest airport, perched more than 14,000 feet above sea level, 3.5-mile-long runway.  737s land and takeoff here - could 747s handle it?

15: Dammam King Fahd International Airport, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

16: Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado, the largest airport in North America

17: Macau International Airport

18: Copalis State Airport, Grays Harbor County, Washington, 4500-foot-long strip of beach
Best wishes,

Phil Bunch