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Must be lovely to hear your neighbor fire up their Cessna at 7 in the morning for their morning commute.
Enjoy being stuck behind the asshole in a C130 with trucknutz.
Would be super impressed if a C130 didn't end up in the cornfield on t/o
God Bless America.
American problems (too short of a runway for your jumbo jet) require American solutions (rocket boosted Yeehaw 🤠)
God that is so fucking glorious
Those are booster jet engines?
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.
Solid rocket boosters, but they’re called “jet assisted take-off” for some reason.
Yep, "Fat Albert" JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) C130.
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.
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.
Muddin' on the weekends!
Thank you, this gave me a good chuckle.
I've lived under a flight path, ~9km/6miles from the airport - while I understand the difference between a 787 and a Cessna 172, I've got no earthly idea why anyone would choose to have a runway in their front yard.
Because us plane people have a crippling addiction...
Haha - like most addictions, this feels a lot like self-harm.
For the people living there I am sure that's a feature, not a bug.
I lived adjacent to a neighborhood like this. It was much quieter than middle aged neighbors with Harley’s. Little Cessnas and Pipers are not that loud.
I imagine the people living there probably don't need to commute at all anymore, or if they do, it's definitely not at 7 in the morning.
I live basically across the street from an Air Force base so I get turboprops over the house at 1,000 feet starting at about 7:00 5-6 days a week. Doesn't bother me or my wife, we just like planes.
I love planes, but I wouldn't want to live next to a fighter base. Cargo planes are super cool though
It's a training base so we've got both here. I'm just on the prop side. Cargo planes are super fun too, used to fly C-17s over my old house all the time before we moved here.
You won't commute like this lol