And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Finnish Air Force practicing takeoffs from a highway
This is nothing new: the Germans did this already in the early 1940s; namely using highways as improvised landing strips. Every Air Force worth its salt has been doing these exercises ever since. Simple technology, but great men behind it.
The Swiss are geniuses at making use of existing infrastructure for dual civilian and military purposes. And if you look at certain American divided highways you will discover that sections of them are completely paved and have dividers that are quickly removable. The sections are wide enough for heavy transport aircraft and have no overhead obstructions, overpasses, light poles, signs, etc.
IIRC, part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 creating todays interstate highway system mandated that sections be designed for such use be it for emergency landings or national defense.
True enough comment about our I'State highways. Going back to 1919, Ike had a keen interest in such doings. In was then that Lt. Col Eisenhower led the "Transcontinental Motor Convoy" from DC to the West Coast. Started out from the Elipse in front of the White House. In post-war Germany he gained further appreciation of modern highways systems.
It's a good thing it's not the NJ Turnpike where you have to have EasyPass.
ReplyDeleteMore MIC idolatry.
ReplyDeleteI find it disgusting.
Gee I think we've discovered an offended Quaker.
DeleteThis is nothing new: the Germans did this already in the early 1940s; namely using highways as improvised landing strips. Every Air Force worth its salt has been doing these exercises ever since. Simple technology, but great men behind it.
DeleteThen it is simple, quite coming here to get offended ya moron.
DeleteThey don't need much runway do they?
ReplyDeleteThe Swiss are geniuses at making use of existing infrastructure for dual civilian and military purposes. And if you look at certain American divided highways you will discover that sections of them are completely paved and have dividers that are quickly removable. The sections are wide enough for heavy transport aircraft and have no overhead obstructions, overpasses, light poles, signs, etc.
ReplyDeleteIIRC, part of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 creating todays interstate highway system mandated that sections be designed for such use be it for emergency landings or national defense.
ReplyDeleteTrue enough comment about our I'State highways. Going back to 1919, Ike had a keen interest in such doings. In was then that Lt. Col Eisenhower led the "Transcontinental Motor Convoy" from DC to the West Coast. Started out from the Elipse in front of the White House. In post-war Germany he gained further appreciation of modern highways systems.
DeleteI wonder who did the FOD check.
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