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Subject: Re: Berra Airport- No Ordinary Airport
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On 2014-07-22 14:37:55 +0000, Ramsman <nospam@nowhere.com> said:
> On 22/07/2014 15:23, Savageduck wrote:
>> On 2014-07-22 13:11:14 +0000, Andrew Chaplin
>> <ab.chaplin@yourfinger.rogers.com> said:
>>
>>> PilotJedi <PilotJedi.e1411d0@aviationbanter.com> wrote in
>>> news:PilotJedi.e1411d0@aviationbanter.com:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Berra Airport in Scotland is one of the most spectacular and beautiful
>>>> airports in the world, it's also one of it's kind. What makes this
>>>> airport so unique is that planes land simply on the beach. During
>>>> low-tide there are three runways. Marked with wooden poles at each end
>>>> and at night car lights and reflective strips laid on to the beach help
>>>> the pilots land. The Traigh Mhor or the bay where the airport is was
>>>> famous for its cockles until aircraft started to use the beach on 14
>>>> June 1933. Even today the beach is open for public, only a windsock
>>>> indicates weather an aircraft is coming and the beach should be cleared
>>>> out. But don't be fooled Berra Airports has the same regulations as any
>>>> airport in the world has, and safety is as important there as in any
>>>> airport.
>>>>
>>>> [image: http://i.imgur.com/CVglY3dl.jpg]
>>>>
>>>> [image: http://i.imgur.com/GBLFk24l.jpg]
>>>>
>>>> Full Album here : http://tinyurl.com/ng8shom
>>>
>>> You need to get these things right, it is "Barra," not "Berra."
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra#Transport
>>
>> Yogi would be disappointed. ;-)
>>
>
> Perhaps that's where he had in mind when he said "If you don't know
> where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
There are a few more "Yogi-isms" which could be used for this thread:
"Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded."
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going,
because you might not get there."
"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."
--
Regards,
Savageduck
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