Saint Helena
Jamesdeviceand GBZ, look no further. The Beriev Be 210 version of the Be 200 below carries 72 passengers. They may need to speak to Shin Meiwa in Japan about modifying it to cope with Atlantic waves though.
Here's the Shin Meiwa PS-1 doing a STOL takeoff from the open sea:
Here's the Shin Meiwa PS-1 doing a STOL takeoff from the open sea:
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Just fished out my atlas and checked a couple of things:
Saint Helena is about 750m SE of Asi, and not really any closer to FI
Not sure if an airfield on Tristan de Cunha (anagram of Chuna) would actually be much use to the population of SH - bit like building another London airport in Carlisle because it would make bombing the Faeroes more convenient?
......or am I missing something here?
Saint Helena is about 750m SE of Asi, and not really any closer to FI
Not sure if an airfield on Tristan de Cunha (anagram of Chuna) would actually be much use to the population of SH - bit like building another London airport in Carlisle because it would make bombing the Faeroes more convenient?
......or am I missing something here?
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Looks good! Checking Beriev's wesbite shows they have a SAR version as well -
"Be-200 search and rescue aircraft can loiter within two-hundred-mile zone for 6.5 hours"
Not a Nimrod replacement, but half way there...
And before anyone writes them off as "Russian" and so lacking support, according to Wiki theres a support agreement in place with EADS, and a possible RR engine option
I wonder what the cost of a mixed batch of passenger and SAR configured ones would be? Maybe the overseas development budget would pay......after all most maritime rescues appear to be from third world flagged ships....
Looks good! Checking Beriev's wesbite shows they have a SAR version as well -
"Be-200 search and rescue aircraft can loiter within two-hundred-mile zone for 6.5 hours"
Not a Nimrod replacement, but half way there...
And before anyone writes them off as "Russian" and so lacking support, according to Wiki theres a support agreement in place with EADS, and a possible RR engine option
I wonder what the cost of a mixed batch of passenger and SAR configured ones would be? Maybe the overseas development budget would pay......after all most maritime rescues appear to be from third world flagged ships....
Too rough for reliable seaplane ops, I believe. Used to teach a couple of lads from there, and one of them did his geography project on a proposed airport which I helped with. I seem to remember the airport was the only sensible option, but no cash was forthcoming at the time. The RAF used to fly them to Ascension every hols, and they got the boat from there.
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Don't think there's enough suitably flat land on Tristan for an airport without a huge engineering job to level bits of the island. The potato patches would probably have to go.
Agree with the dialect being almost unintelligible. The Tristanians speak the same form of 18th century English with a thick accent. Warm and hospitable people and good fun on the urine once you get to know them.
Agree with the dialect being almost unintelligible. The Tristanians speak the same form of 18th century English with a thick accent. Warm and hospitable people and good fun on the urine once you get to know them.
If we want to keep the FI so badly then all HMG has to do is not send the wrong messages to the Argies by massive defence cuts etc....
Somebody should tell them Napoleon croaked quite a few years back. 
