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Lukla Airport: #1 Most Extreme Airport in the World according to the History Channel.....a flight you will not soon forget:

http://youtu.be/T36xY3sQFEY?t=1h11m33s

279 posted on 12/07/2014 5:47:06 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)

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“Lukla Airport: #1 Most Extreme Airport in the World according to the History Channel.....a flight you will not soon forget:”

I don’t know, at that time the airport in Phuplu was just a field carved out of the mountainside. We flew in a twin Otter and after we got through the pass it was full flaps and straight down. Damn those guys were good.

280 posted on 12/07/2014 5:54:15 PM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")

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