St. Vincent’s Argyle Airport runway test procedures raise serious doubts

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Terminal is 30 feet below runway level

by Peter Binose

I have visited the airport three times every week during the last two months.  Recently I watched with my new ‘Sunagor 30- 160X70 binoculars’ from the base of the control tower site, a man I know as a Cuban engineer assisted by a Vincentian labourer testing the runway compaction.

Instead of making a grid in the process of analysing the runway compaction test scientifically it was more of a willy-nilly kind of testing regime.