Welcome to Saba...

... you just landed on the shortest commercial runway in the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RU_fk6zNmc

Ron
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Non urinat in ventum

Hello, Ron!
You wrote on Fri, 18 May 2007 18:50:15 +0200:

R .. you just landed on the shortest commercial runway in the world!
R http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RU_fk6zNmc

R Ron
R --
R Non urinat in ventum

STOL, but I prefer St Barth for the show.

With best regards, Old Flanker. E-mail:

Ron wrote:
.. you just landed on the shortest commercial runway in the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RU_fk6zNmc

Ron
Oh yeah .. Saba ... Especially nice with a 25 kt tail-wind, at night.
Of course, if you stay throttle up you can just drop off the end and
start all over again.

I think Saba is where the joke about cows with one side short legs and
one side long legs comes from. IT is ALL mountain. The people are
great and very tourist friendly.

Cheers,

Dave

On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:09:08 -0500, CWO4 Dave Mann
wrote:

Ron wrote:
.. you just landed on the shortest commercial runway in the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RU_fk6zNmc

Ron
Oh yeah .. Saba ... Especially nice with a 25 kt tail-wind, at night.
Of course, if you stay throttle up you can just drop off the end and
start all over again.

I think Saba is where the joke about cows with one side short legs and
one side long legs comes from. IT is ALL mountain. The people are
great and very tourist friendly.

Cheers,

Dave

When I flew into Adak, Alaska, in 1964 aboard a Reeves Aleutian
Airlines Electra, we came in sideways. I was sitting at a window seat
and looked down the runway as we came in. The guy next to me kept on
say, "Oh, God, oh God." I don't know whether it helped or not, but we
landed safely. I had already crashed twice in military aircraft, so I
wasn't too concerned. NOT!
Dave

Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:09:08 -0500, CWO4 Dave Mann
wrote:

Ron wrote:
.. you just landed on the shortest commercial runway in the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RU_fk6zNmc

Ron
Oh yeah .. Saba ... Especially nice with a 25 kt tail-wind, at night.
Of course, if you stay throttle up you can just drop off the end and
start all over again.

I think Saba is where the joke about cows with one side short legs and
one side long legs comes from. IT is ALL mountain. The people are
great and very tourist friendly.

Cheers,

Dave

When I flew into Adak, Alaska, in 1964 aboard a Reeves Aleutian
Airlines Electra, we came in sideways. I was sitting at a window seat
and looked down the runway as we came in. The guy next to me kept on
say, "Oh, God, oh God." I don't know whether it helped or not, but we
landed safely. I had already crashed twice in military aircraft, so I
wasn't too concerned. NOT!
Dave



Adak and Shemya. Now Shemya was something. Oh and that crashing thing,
when your left seat guy says "oh darn" .. yes, that is a moment of
total clarity.

Cheers,

Dave
CWO4 USA (Ret)

I remember it clearly, even though I was there back in 2000. They sell
T-shirts proclaiming "I Survived the Saba Landing". It looks more
frightening than it is, though. The Twin Otter has at least 25 metres to
spare after coming to a stop.

Regards,
Herman

"Ron" schreef in bericht
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.. you just landed on the shortest commercial runway in the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RU_fk6zNmc

Ron
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Non urinat in ventum

Herman says...
I remember it clearly, even though I was there back in 2000. They sell
T-shirts proclaiming "I Survived the Saba Landing". It looks more
frightening than it is, though. The Twin Otter has at least 25 metres to
spare after coming to a stop.

Its just a matter of coming to a stop before you fall off the other
end...

Where abouts is that runway..? Just so I can look it up in Google
Earth!

Martin Hooper wrote
Where abouts is that runway..? Just so I can look it up in Google
Earth!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saba (pronounced "SAY-ba") is the smallest island of the Netherlands
Antilles, located at at 17°38'N, 63°14'W. It consists largely of the
dormant volcano, Mount Scenery (888 m), the highest point of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands.

Saba has a land area of 13 km² (5 sq. miles). At the 2001 Netherlands
Antilles census, the population was 1,349 inhabitants, which means a
population density of 104 inhabitants per km². In 2004 the population was
estimated at 1,424 inhabitants.

Bob Moore says...
17°38'N, 63°14'W


According to the GE measuring tool the runway is only 0.25 miles.

I guess there is only so many types that can actually land there...

Bob Moore says...
17°38'N, 63°14'W


Heres a small webpage about the airport...
http://www.georgiajets.org/Links/FWI...a_airport.html