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Given sufficient road width, takeoff/landing length, and road "quality" (smoothness, etc), why wouldn't an aircraft be able to takeoff from and land on to a hig
by laydn 3y ago
Given sufficient road width, takeoff/landing length, and road "quality" (smoothness, etc), why wouldn't an aircraft be able to takeoff from and land on to a highway? I mean, what is the actual significance of this?
- sheepshear 3y agoSome fighters are especially good at sucking road debris into the engine.
- chinathrow 3y agos/Some/All/g They clean the road from FOD [0] before such operations. [0] Foreign object debris, can cause foreign object damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage
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- jskrablin 3y agoJet engine intake is basically a giant vacuum cleaner... and the jet engine itself can be destroyed by a small debris like small stones etc which is plentiful around any kind of a road. And a damaged jet engine is kinda bad news on takeoff, especially if there's only one to begin with. A-10's high mounted jet engines are up there for a reason. It can operate from almost anything resembling a runway.
- paganel 3y agoThe Soviets/Russians seem to have solved that problem, this runway [1] looks worse than many county roads around these parts of Eastern Europe where I live. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCLpnQPTWww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCLpnQPTWww