Flown then Blown Away in St Maarten - Amazing Photos!

I absolutely love the Caribbean! I hate it too, I can't move past it and what's not to love?  

(Although, I will soon be posting a few new and exotic hot spots that I would absolutely love to visit).

One of my most favorite places on earth is St Maarten. Yet, I have failed to travel to Maho Beach, situated in the Netherlands Antilles, on the Dutch side of the island. The location is known worldwide because of the Princess Juliana International Airport that is situated immediately adjacent to the beach.

This is where these pictures become priceless.

Incoming air traffic is known to have to touch down as close as possible to the beginning of runway 10 due to the short runway length of 2,180 meters resulting in low-flying aircraft on their final approach over the beach. Due to these low flying airplanes (including large passenger airliners such as the Boeing 747), makes it a very popular spot with plane spotters.

Watching airplanes over the beach is such a popular activity that daily arrivals and departures airline timetables are displayed on a board in most bars and restaurants on the beach, and the Sunset Beach Bar and Grill has a speaker on its outside deck that broadcasts the radio transmissions between pilots and the airport's control tower.

 

Photographer Thomas Prior takes us inside the mayhem and chaos at St. Maarten's Maho Beach giving me another reason to prefer the French-side of the island!

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