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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Enjoy being stuck behind the asshole in a C130 with trucknutz.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Would be super impressed if a C130 didn't end up in the cornfield on t/o

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

God Bless America.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

American problems (too short of a runway for your jumbo jet) require American solutions (rocket boosted Yeehaw 🤠)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

God that is so fucking glorious

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Those are booster jet engines?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Jet Assisted Takeoff - The gif is Fat Albert which is part of the Blue Angels. There was a plan to use jet-assisted landing and takeoff to rescue hostages in Iran but it wasn't used after a failed test of the landing jets.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Solid rocket boosters, but they’re called “jet assisted take-off” for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yep, "Fat Albert" JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) C130.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

C130s were designed to operate from relatively short unimproved runways. If the place has enough runway to operate corporate jets, it should have enough for a C130.

EDIT: This place only has enough runway (2998 x 50 ft ) for small Cessna size aircraft, so no jets or C130s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I reckon a C130 could use it actually. The US Navy landed one on a carrier, which is probably shorter then this runway.

Edit: yes, USS Nimitz is 1/3 the length of this runway. C130 could land and take-off there with no issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Muddin' on the weekends!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you, this gave me a good chuckle.