250 million pound airport you can't land on:

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......

Originally posted by sonhouse
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......

That's science for ya! 😉

>250 million pound airport <

How on Earth do you weigh an airport?

Clueless American Moose

Originally posted by MontyMoose
>250 million pound airport <

How on Earth do you weigh an airport?

Clueless American Moose

Weight of all the materials maybe. Or the cost in Sterling or gold?

It was weighed in the balance of science and found wanting.

Originally posted by MontyMoose
>250 million pound airport <

How on Earth do you weigh an airport?

Clueless American Moose

I 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.

Having visited beautiful London, I was aware of the different money. Next time I will use a smiley to indicate a joke. 🙁

Originally posted by MontyMoose
Having visited beautiful London, I was aware of the different money. Next time I will use a smiley to indicate a joke. 🙁

Jokes aside, can you imagine not doing the most basic checks, like see if the site is windy?

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.

Or like I said, pave it with solar cells. That way the 4000 people living there can have energy.[/b]

Or a wind farm

Originally posted by Captain Strange
Or a wind farm

A wind farm on top of the solar cells!

Turn it into a bird sanctuary, I say.

Originally posted by josephw
That's science for ya! 😉

No, that's politics.

Originally posted by moonbus
No, that's politics.

Or perhaps just stupidity.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Or perhaps just stupidity.

"Suppose you were a senator. Suppose you were an idiot. But I repeat myself." --Mark Twain (or words to that effect)

Daily Mail lies.