http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3622981/The-250m-island-airport-jets-t-land-windy-guess-aid-money-paying-it.html
Quarter billion spent, missing one tiny detail.
St Helena, a great place to visit a thousand miles from anybody, so they built an airport but forgot to check one tiny detail: you can't actually land on it. Too windy, nobody did the simple test of checking winds.
Now they find out the hard way the airport is now a great place to put solar panels......
28 Sep 16
Originally posted by sonhouseThat's science for ya! 😉
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3622981/The-250m-island-airport-jets-t-land-windy-guess-aid-money-paying-it.html
Quarter billion spent, missing one tiny detail.
St Helena, a great place to visit a thousand miles from anybody, so they built an airport but forgot to check one tiny detail: you can't actually land on it. Too windy, nobody did the si ...[text shortened]... s.
Now they find out the hard way the airport is now a great place to put solar panels......
29 Sep 16
Originally posted by MontyMooseI figured there would be someone out there who doesn't know what the UK pound was. Just so you don't make that mistake again, a pound sterling is about $1.30 so 250 million pounds is about $325 million US dollars.
>250 million pound airport <
How on Earth do you weigh an airport?
Clueless American Moose
29 Sep 16
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Originally posted by MontyMooseJokes aside, can you imagine not doing the most basic checks, like see if the site is windy?
Having visited beautiful London, I was aware of the different money. Next time I will use a smiley to indicate a joke. 🙁
I guess it can be used for a hundred helicopters taking off at once🙂
Or like I said, pave it with solar cells. That way the 4000 people living there can have energy.
