Saint Helena Airport
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 107 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5088-0983-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint Helena Airport is an airport under construction since early 2012 through February 2016 in the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean located more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) from the nearest major landmass which can only be reached by ship today. The first considerations for an airport on St Helena were made in 1943 by the South African Air Force which undertook a survey on Prosperous Bay Plain from October 1943 until January 1944 but concluded that while technically feasible, an airport was not a practical proposition. From the 1960s, there was an idea to build an airport on the St Helena Island. In 1999, this was taken up by the island government. After a long period of rumour and consultation, the British government announced plans to construct an airport in Saint Helena in March 2005 and the airport was originally expected to be completed by 2010. However constant delays by the...