Video: Crossroads runway: the most carefree airfield
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Probably most of the readers of Kulturologiya. Ru remember a funny episode from the film "The Unusual Adventures of Italians in Russia", when the plane was taxiing to the landing strip along the most ordinary road. There is a place in the world where this episode could be filmed even without special effects: Gibraltar airfield, where runway strip … intersects with a busy highway.
Peninsula of Gibraltar - very small. You can't walk on this Pillar of Hercules with an area of only 6, 8 square kilometers - and yet, many people would like to walk here. After all, Gibraltar is the southern outpost of Britain, and besides, here you can perfectly moor, relax and put on zero. Therefore, it is very crowded here.
So close that the runway of the local airfield is split in two by a busy highway. When an airplane passes by, the road is simply blocked by flimsy-looking barriers. Of course, this is somehow frivolous: after all, at any moment someone can step on the gas and cause a terrible catastrophe! But, apparently, it is customary here to hope for the Gibraltar maybe.
Very unusual Gibraltar airport runway takes about 30 planes a week, so drivers don't often have to get stuck in traffic jams. But if Britain intensifies passenger traffic with Gibraltar, then it will be necessary to introduce some kind of unusual traffic lights for aircraft! I wonder what colors it will be?
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