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This one is interesting: https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/76042_1547934155.jpg https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/76042_1547934155.jpg Loudenvielle, French Pyrene
by farnerup 4y ago
This one is interesting:
https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/76042_1547934155.jpg https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/76042_1547934155.jpg
Loudenvielle, French Pyrenees
- alistairSH 4y agoSki resort, IIRC. Was in one of the Bond movies (with snow). Probably others. Looks scarier than it is (at least relative to other scary airstrips in worse place - a few high in the Himalayas come to mind). Edit - hmmm, looks like I'm thinking of another mountain top airport in the French mountains.
- dividuum 4y agoThe Bond one is Courchevel (with runway designation 22, not 09) and a bit bigger from what this image looks like. Source: I've taken a stupid video there: https://redd.it/v7vkx6 https://redd.it/v7vkx6 :-)
- jorisboris 4y agoI actually think the Bond one is the Pyrenees one, they even renamed it to 007 airport or something like that. It’s from Tomorrow Never Dies.
- dividuum 4y agoWow. You're totally correct. Thank you. I must have picked up the wrong fact a while ago.
- cjrp 4y agoBelieve they're also known as altiports; Courchevel is another. You need special training to be able to land there.
- dr_orpheus 4y agoYeah, seems there are a number of them in the French Alps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altiport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altiport
- lom 4y agoI also got this one as the 2nd airport.. quite a surprise