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not just cars but cars driven by Cypriots........ enough to keep anyone in the air TBH
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not a problem then all co-speed
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For the OP, my agents report as follows:
"The commentary is of someone phoning a friend or relative to describe, in excited and profane terms, what he has just seen. He comments on the jets being no higher than 15 metres above the "Olympic" road with black smoke emanating. From the snow to the side of the motorway, we can take an educated guess that this is in Sochi near the Black Sea resort of Krasnodar- the site of the 2014 winter Olympics. There is a civilian airport in the vicinity (ex-military) but we cannot say with any certainty whether this is a destination or source of the aircraft in the video clip." |
Strake and Tiger...
According to this website, Krasnodar Int'l Airport is still Joint Civ/Mil and the military do indeed fly Su-25's from there. The road is almost certainly the M4 which runs SW to NE to the North of Krasnodar. If you check out the original video in full screen there is a Military looking vehicle with observers parked up on the hard shoulder on the right (at 59seconds) and a fair bit of civ/mil traffic stopped in coned off outside lane of the opposite carriageway. More interesting perhaps, especially to the Military Spotter community, is another airfield about 10kms North of Krasnodar at 45° 04'49.61N, 38° 57'39.50E an absolute treasure trove of military aviation hardware... Check it out! |
That's Krasnodar Tsentralny Air Force base - if you switch on "photographs" in Google Earth there are some nice pics of various air displays there This year the Kuban Air show - is held elsewhere this year - further north at Novotitarovskaya - mainly business aircraft I think the main military show is at Primorsko-Akhtarsk Air Base about 120 kms NW near the Sea of Azov |
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Thanks for that. Good pics. |
Slightly off topic but I remember using the road between Stanley and MPA as a landing site while we were rebuilding the Mount Kent radar site. It was the only suitable spot because of all the surrounding minefields. Unnerving to find some Benny trying squeeze under the rotors in his Landrover
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The Baghdad to Amman highway has several sections on the Iraqi side of the border which are designed to act as runways, they're quite obvious as you drive them.
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caught an interesting documentary yesterday on the cable box about the swede's and SAAB.
that showed some good bits of roads, mountains and mines..... I never knew the JAS series were as clever as that, Draken, Viggen, Gripen etc. was v good - recommend it. |
v good aircraft - trouble was being neutral no-one else could/would buy them
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Pilot lands on Highway 50 in Delta | 9news.com
Pilot lands on Highway 50 in Delta, Colorado 6:03 PM, May 2, 2013 DELTA - A plane made an emergency landing on Highway 50, just north of Delta, on Thursday. According to KKCO, Delta Police spokesperson Jamie Head says the pilot took off from the Grand Junction Regional Airport but began experiencing engine problems, including a power failure. Air traffic controllers attempted to redirect the pilot to the airport, but he was not going to make it and decided to try to land. The pilot managed to land the fixed wing, single-engine Cessna on the highway but lost control of the aircraft and it veered into the shoulder. The wing of the plane clipped a fence and hit at least one power line. KKCO says cars were driving on the road but swerved out of the plane's path. The pilot was not injured. The plane is registered to Janair LLC in Grand Junction, according to the FAA registry. The power line was hit as he set down on the pavement. |
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Cyprus has got 3 or 4 strips, i think they are even icao registered. All have pockets to park an airplane, but those are used either by icecream trucks / sandwich vans or a police hiding with speed radars. :) the middle separation fence looks like it can be removed in just couple of hours
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