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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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

God Bless America.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

God that is so fucking glorious

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Those are booster jet engines?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago

Muddin' on the weekends!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you, this gave me a good chuckle.