Thanks to the aircraft, get to the other end of the globe perhaps in a couple of tens of hours. Some airports are not at all like a classic laconic combination of a runway and buildings with a reception inside, but are able to greatly surprise their own constructive features or interesting design. About where the most unusual airports in the world are located, which they are notable, will tell the editorial board 24cmi.
1. Changi Airport in Singapore
Tourists from all over the world flock in Singapore to enjoy impressive local attractions. It is appreciated by them as inimitable beautiful futuristic architecture and the abundance of all sorts of parks and gardens, charmingly combining all sorts of world flora. And you can not forget also the famous zoo, where for the inhabitants of the efforts of workers are created approximate to natural conditions.If listed to diligently collect at one point, then the output and the imaginable imagination of the unprepared observer is the Changi Airport. It is a quintessence of all the notable and unusual, which is only possible to meet in the city-state located on 63 islands.
Amazing features of the Singapore airport, who has repeatedly deserved the title of the best in the world, belong to the unprecedented atmosphere, reigning here and the organization of leisure - even looked here in anticipation of the flight traveler does not bother. He is given a lot of opportunities to take himself.
There is a swimming pool, which is located on the roof of this facility, on the right of the "most unusual airports on the planet". In the water of an artificial reservoir, it is not difficult to find shelter from Asian suffocating heat. There are as many as 5 botanical gardens, walking through which tourists will plunge into a real tropical atmosphere and will appreciate the beauty of the waterfalls bangs between the green thickets.
There are other entertainment here. You can visit the fitness center with an extensive choice of simulators or a gaming room with the recent generation consoles. There will be a chance to watch the bizarre light show, which is indifferent will not leave a child or an adult. Amusement park, not airport, in one word. By the way, the 12-meter slide here is also present, like the mass of shopping centers, restaurants and even impressive art objects.
2. Juliana Princess Airport on Saint-Marten
But on the island of St. Martin in the Caribbean, a complex of facilities intended for take-off and landing aircraft has come to the category of unusual airports not for the inimitable beauty or an abundance of all kinds of entertainment. The fact is that the Netherlands of Julian Institution is called in honor of the princess (and then the Queen) of the Netherlands of Julian Institutions - the Beach Macho. The take-off bands overlook the sea coast, so airplanes coming to landing rush in a pair of tens of meters above the heads of tourists.
Despite the present risk, it is soaring airplanes over the beach and attract a huge number of people who want to see the aircraft are extremely close, or even fix a similar spectacle on a photo or camcorder.
No wonder the local beach is also known as "Paradise for Spotters" - lovers watching aircraft. But for the controlling 300-ton mahina pilots, landing here is able to become a challenge of difficult - both due to the arrangement of the WFP and because of the capricious weather.
3. Airport "Kansai" in Japan
Construction of the Japanese airport "Kansai", which is located in Osquity Bay, ended in September 1994. And this is despite the fact that the project obliged to solve the problems with air traffic in the densely populated region of the center, the authorities of the country thought back in the 60s. The notable airport does not the main building, (designed with the participation of the famous architect from Italy, the founder of the High-Tech style Renzo Piano), in shape resembling a 1.5-kilometer air wing. And not even the impressive fact that the cost of landing for arriving sides reaches $ 7-10 thousand.
The most amazing at the airport "Kansai" is a location. After all, both its take-off stripes are located, 2 of which opened in 2007, on the island created artificially. It is connected to the coast of a 3-kilometer bridge with a 6-band motorway on the top tier and 2 railway lines - on the bottom.
The bulk platform was taken to ensure that residents of abundantly populated Osaka do not suffer from the noise of jet engines - factor for the surrounding inhabitants of an unpleasant, but inextricably linked with the reception, shipment and maintenance of aircraft. Yes, and the title of engineering miracle created by human hands, an impressive creation deserved - surrendered, despite the sediment of the soil, threatening to immerse the island at the bottom of the airport bay even survived due to the design of the 1995 earthquake.
4. Gisborne Airport in New Zealand
New Zealand is considerable interest for diverse travelers. Starting with lovers of natural landscapes and tourists-speleologists attracted by the underground beauties of the archipelago, and ending with fans of the film chief of Peter Jackson "The Lord of the Rings". Fortunately, landscapes served as excellent kind for the filming of the masterpiece in the fantasy genre, and Tolkien-Tourism subsequently "fit" in the local entertainment industry. So do not be surprised that the place from the category "The most unusual airports in the world" was found here.We are talking about located on the North Island, on the coast of the poverty bay, modest in terms of the size of Gisborne airport, the "pinning" by the outskirts of the city of the same name. It is not capable of hit by the number of daily and sent onboard, it is not capable - here we give our chassis on the ground only performing domestic flights of the aircraft, and the annual passenger traffic does not exceed 200 thousand people. Large aerobus here will also not meet, and at night the airport does not work.
But the only asphalt take-off strip (the remaining three - herbal) crosses the railway, and the acting - the cargo branch connects the city of Gisborne and Palmerston-North. So the air traffic passes have to customize the schedule of takeoffs and landing on schedule on the tracks of the compositions, in order to avoid probable PE.
5. Gibraltara Airport
But the airport of the Gibraltar cliff, who is located at the footing in the southern tip of the Pyrenean Peninsula, which is listed since the Second World War in the department of the UK Defense Ministry, but still accepting and civil flights is located 0.5 km from the center of Gibraltar. The sizes of the peninsula dictate their own conditions. However, thanks to such a dislocation, a distinctive feature of the local runway appeared - it crosses the 4-way automotive highway, rushing to the land border with Spain.
Because of this particular, the WFP crossing the Winston Cherchilla's name is overlapping every time the plane takes off or landing. Considering that the highway is intensive movement (tens of thousands of cars are passing on it every day), such a neighborhood could be a serious problem for local residents and transit travelers. Fortunately, the airport for a week takes no more than 30 flights, and the work on the construction of a bypass path is close to completion.
6. Funchal Airport in Portugal
At Madeira's Island owned by Portugal, the airport is located in 2016, the airport is located in 2016, the name of the famous Funchal Football player Cristiano Ronaldo has appropriated to the entire globe. But this decent point of attention does not apply to the reasons of the strangeness of the airfield mentioned, because much more noteworthy is that the local runway is an amazing engineering structure.The airport was upgraded twice, and each time the main transformation object became the take-off stripes, which up to 2000 were 2. First, the WFP length was 1600 m, but after the aircraft crash occurred in 1977 decided to increase the length of 200 m.
In the zero take-off strip, remaining in the only number after the refusal of the second, "retained" to 2781 m due to the artificial overpass structure formed by 180 columns of the 3-meter diameter. So now part of the runway is the similarity of the roof of an ancient Greek temple, located on massive structures reaching in a height of 50 m.
7. Dickson Airport in Russia
In Russia, there are also unusual airports, which is striking in which not interesting design or beautiful surrounding landscapes, and surprisingly tough conditions, when they are working on receiving aircraft. It is worth remembering at least the most northern Russian airport "Dixon", which is 5 km west of the same name, and for a long time, who worked the title of the most terrible in the world (which is worth noting, fully justified).
From the runway built in the 30s of the last century of the Civil Airport, an artificial coating was carried out. Through it looks over the basis of the WFP - concrete slabs. Some of them are local soil forced to boost. The building where the reception of passengers is placed is the construction of time, frankly terrible on appearance. And around "all this magnificence" also scattered in the picturesque disarray of the wreckage of old aircraft and other incomprehensible metal structures.
It is noteworthy that all these years, with the exception of short breaks, the airport continued to properly accept and send aircraft, the number of which, however, was not too large. Annual passenger traffic here does not exceed 4.5 thousand people.
However, in the 2020th leadership of the airports of Krasnoyaria, which belongs to Dixon, stated that this year the events will start to bring the local "economy" in order. So soon and the take-off strip, and the administrative building will again acquire the view corresponding to the honorary rank of "the northern airport in Russia".