mig and street sign
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https://theaviationist.com/2020/08/...-a-road-sign-during-highway-landing-training/
He was landing on a highway.
He was landing on a highway.
1.5 years ago.
I'm glad to see the Ukrainians using highways for take offs and landings. The Finns (and probably the Norwegians and Swedes) do that too. That way you can disperse your air force when you need to, and an enemy can't hope to take out all of your landing strips.
All you need are straight stretches of highway, paved using unusually heavy construction, and mobile obstructions that can be towed onto the highway to deny its use to bogeys.
All you need are straight stretches of highway, paved using unusually heavy construction, and mobile obstructions that can be towed onto the highway to deny its use to bogeys.
There have been rumors that the US Interstate Highway System required flat/straight stretches of land every five miles in order to accommodate military aircraft in case of war. Of course it was a rumor. There was a WWII era plan in place though to place runways **near** highways to make for easy access to fuel sources. That was real, but certainly not where they required it every five miles.
One Mile in Five: Debunking The Myth | FHWA
Editor's Note: In the following article, we let the Federal Highway Administration's "unofficial historian" get something off his chest. He needed to vent.
highways.dot.gov
I have no idea where the one-out-of-five claim originated. Perhaps it is giving too much credit to whoever originated this "fact" to suggest that it began with a misreading of history. Under a provision of the Defense Highway Act of 1941, the Army Air Force and the Public Roads Administration (PRA), now the Federal Highway Administration, operated a flight strip program. In a 1943 presentation to the American Association of State Highway Officials, Commissioner of Public Roads Thomas H. MacDonald explained how it worked.
"A flight strip consists of one runway, laid down in the direction of the prevailing wind, and a shelter with telephone for the custodians at the site and for itinerant flyers in an emergency. Fuel storage facilities are not provided unless airplanes are based there permanently. Instead, oil companies will keep stocks of aviation gasoline at gas stations along the highway and truck it to the flight strip as it is needed."
Kestas
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This past summer there were exercises in Michigan where military aircraft practised landings and takeoff from existing civilian roads.
John Belushi could not fly his way out of a wet paper bag... that was pure Frank Tallman flying the P40...
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back when he was still a sukhoi and not a mig...
