Shannon...Nasa landing site!!

Hi all,

Im wondering do many people know shannon airports main runway 06/24 is a Nasa emergency landing site for the shuttle,the runway there is 3199mx45m.....I knew because im intrested & involved in aviation since i was knee height to a grass-hopper!!!!!!

Nope!
Thats class.
I could just zip down the road for a look.

Although I'd probably miss it.
I missed the new Airbus doing tests last summer....
after following the whole thing on Discovery.....

Hi Frank,

Ye its probably a lil known fact id imagine...Ye i saw the A380 there in the summer some piece of engineering...hope it never crashes itl do some damage! ye be cool the atlantis dropping in wouldnt it some viewing there for it too!!

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Winkn knowledge with everyone that shannon airports main runway 06/24 is a Nasa emergency landing site for the shuttle,the runway there is 3199mx45m.....

Someone put that on wikipedia a while ago but despite being asked has not provided a citation for it. Granted the runway is big enough, but I haven't seen it listed officially anywhere - and I'm not buying the shuttle abort manual to check it out! You'll find it mentioned on several websites alright.

With some of our western runways you'd almost think the USAF had some say in the construction

All together now:

All sorts of planes could land there, of that there's little doubt,
handy for the George Bush to keep knock Gadaffi out.
Did NATO donate, me boys, did NATO donate the dough?

I think Nasa has a site designated in Spain for emergency landings for Florida launches.
For my bad memory in one of the books on the Shuttle, Shannon was designated as a site when they were constructing the Orbiter and during initial test flights but after that, Nasa's preference was for Spain.

Darragh

Hi albertw,

i found out threw a club im in shannon from lads who where air traffic controllers, i aint from there im in waterford.....plenty of G.Bush traffic there alrite!! Back in the 50s/60s the usaf wanted to set up a base there because of our nutrality it never happend