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It all started in the Outside The Box thread in AvPhoto.

I had come across this great shot of a Herc apparently taking off from a beach (sorry, I cannot embed the photo here).

Subsequently, I tried to find out what exactly went on there. According to the photog's comment, the shot was taken at Saltum beach in Northern Denmark. I found one post in a Danish forum that suggests Saltum beach is used as a training facility for Herc offroad ops, but despite of the camera team in the picture, I did not find any other photos or videos.

Until now. Happened on 04 Oct, and here's the video:

http://www.tv2nord.dk/artikel/176571:-- ... tum-Strand

Danish only, and there are only a few seconds of the actual landing (or touch-and-go, as it looks), but damn! That's impressive!
From the comment below the picture, it sounds as if several aircraft were involved.

The RAF do it in Devon:

That was a piece of cake. Just crashin' and dashin'.

Nothing magic about landing on a beach when the weather is decent, they make very nice runways. Nice "breeze" to make things interesting in the Danish video, and like a true bush pilot, he drags the field first before the landing attempt. No reason you shouldn't be able to operate a 737 out of the beach in the British video, that's something I'd like to see! Never mind the salt water, it'll dry.

Wait, we can barrel roll 707s and land these monsters on beaches!?!

Queso wrote:Nothing magic about landing on a beach when the weather is decent, they make very nice runways. Nice "breeze" to make things interesting in the Danish video, and like a true bush pilot, he drags the field first before the landing attempt. No reason you shouldn't be able to operate a 737 out of the beach in the British video, that's something I'd like to see! Never mind the salt water, it'll dry.

Yeah, that would be an excellent idea,
Next time they BA should bring a Boeing to Barra !!!, now that would be a sight.