New Track in Scotland???

[scz4]

Looks like you could make a pretty good track from this airfield... anyone fancy buying it, just a £1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_we...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=RAF+Mach...

Edited by scz4 on Tuesday 18th May 11:15

[a11y_m]

Shame on the location - 138 miles / 3hrs 18min from Glasgow...

3,000metre runway sounds like fun though

[istoo]

ah now i beleive there is a striaght beside that which is good for erm... test speed.

[S2red]

Remember landing on that on a loganair flight to Islay years ago

The bit we landed on seemed so wide plane could just about have landed across the runway!

Edited by S2red on Tuesday 18th May 12:51

[Lefty 200 Drams]

Macrahanish was one of the supposed runways for Aurora...



I was there once when I was in the ATC, it's fookin massive.

[S2red]

The stealth bombers landed there before they "existed" supposedly

[Robert Burns]

S2red said:

The stealth bombers landed there before they "existed" supposedly

It used to be for the b-52 bombers and for a emergency landing strip for the shuttle. But the runway is is the third longest in europe, would be a great drag strip.

But its a great drive from glasgow, some really nice roads

Edited by Robert Burns on Tuesday 18th May 17:33

[IainW]

I bet you'd still complaints from the neighbours about the noise, despite being as remote as that is!

[thinfourth2]

IainW said:

I bet you'd still complaints from the neighbours about the noise, despite being as remote as that is!

Trust me some sad tt would move there just to complain

[Mad Jock]

Robert Burns said:

S2red said:

The stealth bombers landed there before they "existed" supposedly

It used to be for the b-52 bombers and for a emergency landing strip for the shuttle. But the runway is is the third longest in europe, would be a great drag strip.

But its a great drive from glasgow, some really nice roads

Edited by Robert Burns on Tuesday 18th May 17:33

Pedant mode ON.
The runway at Cape Canaveral where they land the shuttle, is 2.8 miles long. Macrihanish is 1.87 miles long. I'm not so sure that the shuttle would stop before the end of the runway. I'd heard that myth years ago, but with the advent of Google Earth, it's easy to and look at these places and measure them. (One gets so bored sometimes, stuck on an oil rig with nothing to do).