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Not that uncommon. The Czech motorway D1 can be converted to a military airstrip here: https://www.google.com/maps/@49.3870307,15.9211894,289m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1
by Piskvorrr 4y ago
Not that uncommon. The Czech motorway D1 can be converted to a military airstrip here: https://www.google.com/maps/@49.3870307,15.9211894,289m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e4 https://www.google.com/maps/@49.3870307,15.9211894,289m/data...
See where the grass divider ends, and gets replaced by a jersey barrier for 2 km? That part is the runway - it would require some hours of preparation before it would be usable, it's not quite "declare mayday and dump the plane there."
- noduerme 4y agoah, that's very cool. Makes me think of all kinds of NATO-level shit that's strewn around the world waiting to be uncovered ;) The thing with the road in Uruguay is that as you're driving, there's basically a yellow sign with a picture of an airplane and an arrow pointing up, and you're like "what the fuck did that mean?" And then suddenly you understand exactly what it meant because you're driving on a fucking runway...
- Piskvorrr 4y agoAs in, "give way to aircraft from above" :D
- dalkvist 4y agoSweden had/has roads onthe middle of nowhere/forest that has more free space on the sides and at each end of particularly strate and flat stretches, there are oversized parking spots. Supposedly so fighter planes could refuse and rearm from mobile crews
- jabl 4y agoFinland has plenty of those too. Here's a video of an F-18 doing a landing and takeoff from such a stretch of road during some exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_eJxy8ojk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_eJxy8ojk
- Arnt 4y agoThe ones I've been on weren't signposted at all. You're just on a road, and suddenly the road is completely straight and very wide, and 3km later it's back to normal, and there's nothing visible nearby. I googled and found a list on https://www.mil-airfields.de/se/list.htm https://www.mil-airfields.de/se/list.htm but IIRC there must be something further northwest, not on the list.
- mormegil 4y agoThe Czech one is more of a Warsaw-Pact-level shit. :-) Here is a (originally secret) documentary video about MiG-21 exercise on the highway (in Czech, obviously): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDoZGoaG9_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDoZGoaG9_w
- pxmpxm 4y agoWrong spot, I'm pretty sure youre thinking of Vyškov https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2936699,17.0223332,1311m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2936699,17.0223332,1311m/dat...
- Piskvorrr 4y agoAnd I'm absolutely sure I wasn't: two different spots, both near military airbases, this one is somewhat longer than the Vyškov one. Personally drove on both of them, many times. Can't find an English source though: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leti%C5%A1t%C4%9B_M%C4%9B%C5%99%C3%ADn https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leti%C5%A1t%C4%9B_M%C4%9B%C5%9...