Discussions about a possible spaceport on the Moine have been going on with the local landowner (Melness Crofters' Estate) for a number of years.
OT: Why A'Mhoine ?
Jul 16, 2018
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Care to take a bet on just how far this will progress?
ITYF that even the world's shortest runways are over a mile in length
tim
London city airport runway is 0.9280303 mile.
Mike
Mmm. Im pretty sure that...
..there are a few shorter than that
Jersey and Guernsney are just over a mile, and they are a bit hairy.
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1600 feet! That's less than 600 yards..
10,000 feet or about two miles is standard for 'all aircraft' capability
Oliver Tambo airport (Johannesburg) has a 15,000 foot runway, but due to its altitude - 5000ft - and the heat - up to 45C overe the tarmac at middaya, a fully laden Jumbo cannot take off at midday.
Ah, my mistake. I should have checked. It's 2.75 miles long, fractionally over 9,000 ft, it says here
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How that compares with other runways, I don't know.
Sorry, wrong again. I'm not doing very well this morning! That should be 2,750 metres, not miles!
That IS short.
Several relevant links on this:
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Top dollar so far is Oliver Tambo (Joburg) at 14,500 feet.
Unless you know better.
Heathrow 3,000 meters or so
Oh. here you are...
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2.75km? Thats pretty short
You haven't landed and taken of from a Nigerian airstrip in a Twin Otter! I've no ide of the length of it, but when landing, I could only see swamp below us until the last second before the wheels touched down. On take-off, they wanted every inch of the strip and so turned the plane right at the end ... so far to the end, that they had to stop the traffic on the road as the wing went over it in the 180° turn!
SteveW
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