Boeing 747 landing - St Maarten
 

enjoy :glugglug

Woah, that is some crazy shit. I would have crapped myself if I was in a car going by....sure looked like they were going to crash land.

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!

ive seen those pics and differnt videos before thats CRAZY

wow ....

weird ass location for an airport. have seen it before

There are tons of different videos on youtube with landings/takeoffs

WOW, would love to see that.

I'd be hanging out on a different beach.

that is pretty sick

Who's got the video of the airplane taking off from that airport? That one is crazy as well.

If that plane miscalculates the runway just a bit off everyone on the ground is toast.

are you fucking shitting me? what's the safety record there??

Cool vids
 

I first saw that St. Maarten beach landing video a few months ago -- pretty crazy. It would be cool to witness in person. Here are a couple other videos that you might like -- the first one ends in a surprising (and witty) manner. :-) The second one is just another cool plane related video; although, I'm sure many would cringe at the use of the word "plane" to describe an F16 fighter.

** Oh .. again I am thwarted by GFY not permitting link posting until members have made a min of 30 posts. Something tells me this policy ads to the tremendous number of annoying "bump" posts, in order for members to try to get their post count up. So ... seeing as I can't post the videos, you can find them by searching Youtube for the following phrases, and the videos I am referring to are the first in the respective search results:

f-16 full afterburner

Pilot of the Century - Belly Landing on Beach

Oh .. and one more landing related video. This one is rather adorable. Search Youtube for:

iris landing

Wow wow!!!

That's cool..... big machine.

I've stood on that beach while planes come in, it's crazy shit

<------- Crosses St Maarten off places to fly to.

I would so travel to St Maarten just to see the airport in real life.

We were there not even 10 days ago... It was unreal when we flew in because i said "shit this looks exactly like that crazy youtube video where the landing strip is right on the beach". Then the person beside me said "this is that crazy airport haha!"

I seadoo'ed out one day and watched some planes fly in, didn't see any super big ones (like the one in the video) but man it was pretty surreal! Definetely worth checking out if you are in St Maarten!

Seen that before that's insane!

That's a nice and very relaxing beach.

That's insane bro...

Thursday AM the Air France 747 rolls in.

those planes were crazy taking off, there is a mountain in front of the runway , so soon as you take off, you have to do a steep bank to get away from it:helpme
have some shots here :winkwink: they were flyingt over the yacht we were on:pimp
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Its a Bird , its a Plane, its >>>>>>>>>> Super DH:1orglaugh

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Holy wow! That is nuts!



and the planes are pretty crazy too :winkwink:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh good one Julius:thumbsup

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Me to I think! :Oh crap

Thats cool. Would love to see it live.
One day I hope :-)

The runway for Ft Lauderdale airport end right at the edge of I95

I see that shit all the time while driving by. Not that close but similar

so cool

There's a palapa beach bar right there on the beach at the end of the runway, great place to watch the landings

I was just thinking about that... wow, crazy shit. I noticed the bar, road and landing strip but didn't realize the planes were than damn close.

Brad

:1orglaugh anybody would crap

he only just made the runway - you can hear the engines ramp up to give it that extra push

I bet the pilots like to see just how close they can get their wheels to the top edge of that fence. Probably a challenge kinda thing.

I sit on that beach and watch that a couple of times a year. It is surreal!

I wanna i wanna i wanna go there!!!

oh hell no! that shit is crazy!

I like the one where it has to fly over a hill and go about 40 feet off of it on the back side to make the runway with enough time to stop...

Hard to believe insurance will cover these kinds of everyday situations.