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If someone bombs your runway
BobJudy
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You can be confident of surviving if you have the proper training:
Wish I had known about this in advance so I could have been there to see it in person. Bob
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Warthog. Finest troop support device ever created by man..
Somewhere in the back of my mind is something about Nation Defense Highway Program. Think it's something to do with Eisenhower. When they built Route 250 that parallels I64 from Richmond to Charlottesville there are miles and miles of roadway straight as a arrow to land/take off planes in a National Emergency. Ring a bell with anyone?------------Ray
If my memory is right, All of the Interstate highways could be requisitioned for military aircraft and/or usage in an emergency.
Joe
I think there is something in specs when highway first built, every so many miles there has to be a stretch so many miles long as straight as a arrow.---------------Ray
"Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956" I think Ike got the idea from the Autobaun in WW2 in Germany to move troops and tanks in a hurry in national emergency. Somewhere along the way I think the straight stretches could be used for landing/take off of aircraft?
Yup Ike designated the landing areas in the highway system back when it was under design
Yea but some idiot would be texting and driving and have a head on collision with the 1st jet that landed!
story i heard was Eisenhower was impressed with the Autobahn system and its efficiency in facilitating troop movements so he started the interstate road system. im sure use as runways was also part of the thinking.
Eisenhower may have been inspired by the Autobahn but our highway system is a poor cheaply made copy. The Autobahn is at least twice as thick and much better maintained. My thoughts about the A10s using the road as a landing strip were that it is fortunate that they don't need much runway. As the rest of our Michigan members will attest, it is hard to find any length of good road in this state. The Warthog may be the toughest plane out there but I am afraid our potholes are meaner than even it is. Bob
Try that on I-77/ West Virginia Turnpike.
I tried it a couple of times but my truck does not have wings, Ouch!--------------------Ray
i remember that if you had the money to pay the toll the WV turnpike was the finest road in the state. left Ms and went to green bay several years ago, i have never seen roads as rough as there are in illinois and wis.
Eisenhower may have learned of the Germans experience in Russia particularly spring time in Russia
I did surveying for laying out several interstate highways in the east. As with everything else, politics won out over good plans and common sense. There are numerous places in the interstate system where there are totally unnecessary curves. Many of these were added as detours around some big-hat politician's property. Others were to run the highway through a section of worthless land that just happened to belong to some big politician or political donor.
In New York State, they have toll booths every hundred yards....everybody pays...even the airplanes...😮
If someone bombs your runway the SeaBees will have it rebuilt in a couple of hours.
Full name is " Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways".
When I was in the Army Reserve one of my jobs was updating plans for mobilization -- where would my unit go, how to feed them, where would be sleep, etc etc etc.
Friend of mine had same job for a tank unit. He was checking on routes, bridges, etc. for moving the heavy stuff to where it needed to be and the state highway folks told him there was no way he would get permits to move stuff that heavy on "their" interstates.
He read the fine print of the Interstate rules to them and they reached an understanding.
Something like "I've got tanks. Who's gonna stop me?"
Just fill it up with democrats