poZ leute...nadam se da ste svi usli u novu klizeci kao i ja
AN124 nikad nije bio u SJJ, al jeste onaj americki transporter s S, ne C17, nego onaj razduzeni koji uvijek prati AirForceOne s vozilima itd...
Marko, sto se tice vecih aviona, na staroj stranici SJJ je bio dobar istorijat...na novu trenutno nemogu uci...sigurno im server u Afghanistanu pogodjen americkom bombom, sta vec! No, tokom olimpijade je aerodrom fino izgradjen. Evo istorijat, sto sam uz AFCAD scenery za FS napisao, koristio sam izvore o SJJ, tunelu ispod piste itd:
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-->Thank you for reading this text. Hope that you don't fall a sleep.
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-->Sarajevo International Airport - Butmir History by flybosna®com airPORTS™ -the only real low-cost-airline of Bosnia and Herzegovina- (Mirza Ibrahimovic - Director & Founder).
->This I like to call "The beginning - 1965-1984":
-->Sarajevo International Airport - Butmir saw its first planes and passengers in 1965. As also being an important feeder airport for the Yugoslav capital Belgrades International Airport - Surcin, Sarajevo International Airport was from the beginning one of the most modern airports on the Balkans.
-->It suited over a 2400 x 45 m lightened and paved runway and two central placed 18 m wide paved taxiways that connected the runway and the 200 x 80 m (16000 sq. m.) apron where the modern 30 x 30 m terminal (1800 floor sq. m.) and control tower also was situated. These taxiways are now known as taxiway TB and TC and terminal is the nowadays Terminal A, used for General Aviation which is soon getting reconstructed.
->"Winter Olympic Games - ’84" I think is a bit freezing, but next phase that you for sure will manage in heat:
-->As Sarajevo hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1984, the airport was forced to expand for being able to handle the Olympic Games traffic, that included aircrafts larger then the one serving the airport nowadays (observed among others were Douglas DC8’s, DC9’s, DC10’s, Boeing B727, B737. Lockheed L1011-1 TriStar, etc.).
-->The runway was extended with 200 m (150 m towards threshold 30 and 50 m towards threshold 12), measuring the nowadays 2600 m of length and got equipped with the newest lightning and navigational system available at that time.
-->The apron was expanded to the southwest and southeast, measuring total 380x130 m (49400 sq. m., being 200 percent larger then prior).
-->A new terminal, the nowadays Terminal B was also constructed with a beautiful architectural expression of dynamics and movement, perfect for a transit building, as a passenger terminal is. It was 200 percent larger then the first, measuring 70 x 80 m (56000 floor sq. m.). Inside it was equipped with the most modern furniture and handling equipment available. It was also equipped with two two-dimension-movable boarding bridges. This made Sarajevo International Airport being one of the three airports in the Balkans (after Budapest and Belgrade) having boarding bridges.
-->Also a new higher and larger control tower was constructed, on the site of the old one.
-->A 23 m wide runway 30 connection taxiway, the nowadays Taxiway TA, that leads from the apron and parallel with the runway towards runway 30 threshold was also constructed, for easing the ground manoeuvring.
-->This was especially important, as Sarajevo International Airport has a sort of “blind runway”, with majority landings on runway 12 and departures from runway 30, literally meaning the traffic is flying towards each other. This is due to high terrain in all quadrants around the airport. But when heavy snow combined with south-eastern wind strikes the airport, then the only option is to make the short circuit approach on runway 30, if not wishing to skid of the runway 12 with massive tailwind and icy runway.
->This I think is called "The war - 1992-1996", and I hate it for happening anywhere anytime - but "nuts happens":
-->During the war, the airport it self, as a port and its location played a key role.
-->The French Army got stationed on the airport very early and controlled the movements of the army transport and humanitarian traffic. It is also well known, that they controlled or better to say stopped the human traffic at the airport, where civilian people that tried to cross the runway towards south and freedom, escaped from the mines surrounding the airport, but didn’t escaped the French fire.
-->As the situation in Sarajevo was critical, with the total blockade of complete town, which was deprived of foodstuffs, electricity, fuel, and not to mention arms, on the 22. December 1992, the general stuff of the BiH Army issued an order to approach to making out a plan for construction of a tunnel under the runway, with the view of connecting the besieged with the free territory south of the airport.
-->Along with unfavourable weather conditions, lack of tools and permanent shelling, the first excavations began on January 1993 but progressed very slow, as also the underground water made problems. On 28. January 1993 a twenty-four-hour-work in three shifts was introduced, and a half year later on 30. July 1993, two diggers, digging from the two opposite directions (one from Dobrinja Settlement and other from Butmir) finally offered a hand each other, known as the hand of hope and victory. Sarajevo herby got a port to the world going underneath its really port to the world.
-->The tunnel was 800 m long and had a average width of 1 m and high of 1,5 m. A pipe-line used for delivery of oil, mail- and electro-cables for telephone network etc. was laid, resulting in Sarajevo now having minimal electricity, worldwide telephone lines and oil.
-->It saved many lives and is still a symbol of the resistance of the unarmed people, but it also created some problems for the world above, the airport.
-->The ground above the tunnel began slowly to sink as a part of water derange and collapses of the frame structure. It resulted in the runway sinking across, so taxiway TA and the part of the runway from taxiway TB and towards runway 30 was closed for manoeuvring.
->This I think is the"Current situation - 1996-2005":
-->During my first visit in Bosnia in summer 1997, the runway was still closed beyond taxiway TB (this was solved later same year).
The pavement situation was catastrophically and the airport was only opened for visual operations, as the airport was mined all the way around, and the landing systems, lights and other navaid equipment was stolen (note, not destroyed, but stolen!). Some of that equipment can be found on regional airports in the region.
-->The terminal was in a bunker condition, minimal glass, zero handling equipment (also stolen!), sandbags, etc. Many donations from Germany (Hamburg and Frankfurt International Airports) were the first help.
-->Later on came the terminal reconstruction donation from Netherlands, including more handling equipment from Germany and Netherlands.
-->The tower and navaid equipment & reconstruction donation from Norway was obtained. The airport is now fully ILS equipped and lightened with CALVERT approach- and PAPI4 lights on runway 12 and runway centreline, threshold, edge, end, taxiway edge and apron lights.
-->Finally the main terminal (B) was reconstructed in 2003, after several years underway. Now it is a modern terminal, still with the same beautiful architectural expression of dynamics and movement, but in new materials and colours. Its two boarding bridges were replaced with two brand new Dutch models, as seen at Amsterdam - Schipol International Airport.
-->The same year was the tower reconstructed and a brand new Cargo Centre was constructed in the northern part of the apron.
-->In 2004 left the French Army the airport, moved their temporary mobile control tower from the plain between taxiways TB and TC and left the 3 main aircraft hangars and the storage facilities at the northern apron perimeter.
-->The same year was the de-mining work at the airport perimeter completed!
-->The airport is now a pure civil airport, controlled by the authorities, but still visited by military transporters, helicopters and VIP bizz-jets among the civil traffic.
-->Scheduled airlines serving the airport are:
--->AeroFlight (A320/321)
--->Alitalia (ERJ145)
--->Austrian Arrows (A320/321/CRJ/DHC8-Q400)
--->B&H Airlines (ATR72)
--->Croatia Airlines (ATR42/A319)
--->CSA (ATR42/B735)
--->Germania (F100)
--->JAT Airways (ATR72)
--->Lufthansa (ARJ85)
--->MALEV (CRJ/F70)
--->SAS (MD80)
--->Turkish (B738)
-->Also several charter airlines and cargo companies are serving the airport.
-->To secure the airport even more, a new fence and maintrance roads around the airport were constructed in 2004.
-->And finally in late summer 2005, the airport has been closed between September 2.nd and September 10.th where the runway has been coated with anti skid pavement. This resulted in a visual pavement colour difference and strength between the runway, part of the taxiways and the rest of the paved manoeuvring areas. This have I tried to visualise in the AFCAD file, by using bitumus for the darker areas and asphalt & macadam for the lighter ones.
->This I think will happen in "The future - 2005 ->"
-->Sarajevo International Airport is geographically situated in a valley, surrounded by high terrain in all quadrants. Even closer (literally close!!!) are the different towns and settlements as being Ilidza to the west, Butmir to the south and Dobrinja to the north and the rivers, with Zeljeznica running just south of the airport and often causing thick fog.
-->Expansion of the airport apron is possible, as there is plenty of space north of taxiway TA. Soon B&H Airlines will be the first to build something new in the eastern part of the airport, being a new hangar.
-->A runway extension is a bigger task, as the level increases behind runway 30, which already is placed 20 m higher then runway 12. But if necessary, a extension of 400 m, bringing the runway length at total 3000 m is possible, by levelling the ground.
-->During the war, Bosnian Army began flattening hill-area north of the town Visoko (meaning "high"), which is some 40 km north of Sarajevo on the Bosna River.
-->When people were dieing in battle and of hunger, they managed to acquire enough fuel and machinery and began flattening a hill and filling its surroundings up with the excavated earth.
-->Herby they managed in 1994 to create an airstrip with a 1700 m east-west running runway, which in 1999 was 1000 m longer and should be topping the 3600 m, required for a Boeing 747, but first after moving a hill in the western end.
-->Then the political stopped this absurd idea of creating Visoko International Airport (the possible future of Sarajevo International Airport) known as “The airport between two fogs”, as having Bosna River to the east and Lastva River to the west.
-->Now the airfield is used by a local aero club, and is sold to a private investor who has big plans with the airfield, aiming to make the Balkans Cargo Hub of it. But first the legal stuff with stolen property etc. has to be solved.
->Interesting and sad ain!? - Welcome to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The country, where everything is possible - unfortunately!!!
->This I like to be the sources:
-->www.sarajevo-airport.ba, DANI news magazine and several anonymous people.
->This is who I am:
-->© 2005 by flybosna®com airPORTS™ -the only real low-cost-airline of Bosnia and Herzegovina-
Mirza Ibrahimovic - Director & Founder
-->Anything on your heart, throw it @ me: flybosna.com@gmail.com (please write "LQSA2005" in the subject)
->This I think I will call "The End"
-->The End (what did you think!?)
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